Parag Patel wrote:
>
> Well, it's more of a matter of putting the kernel itself into the boot
> ROM with some small assembly/C code to turn on DRAM and an ungzipper to
> load and run it. It's fairly simple, other than dealing with the
> various motherboard/chipset vagaries.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that part. Still evil, but better. :-)
> Personally, I'd set it up to hold two kernel images - one for testing
> and one for emergency recovery. If a bad kernel gets into the flash,
> recovering will be ... painful. But there may not be enough room.
Heh. :-) Yeah, that would be... desirable... :-)
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