Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Peter Waltenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having a PC that booted Linux directly from the (ex-BIOS) ROM , now that > would be "interesting". Been there doing that. http://www.linuxbios.org Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Jeremy Jackson
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > No it forbids executing boot roms that way, by a standard pc bios. > The system BIOS in a PC is normally on the ISA bus which is reached > across via the PCI bus with a PCI->ISA bridge. Son of a gun, I missed that... sure enough my PIIX4 docs beside me here show a #B

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM > > speed is slow :( > > Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the PCI

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Jaswinder Singh wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > Thanks for your help, > > I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM > speed is slow :( Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the PCI bus. The system BIOS in a PC is not on the PCI bus, bus, but ev

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <01e701c09a2a$21e789a0$bba6b3d0@Toshiba> you wrote: > I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM > speed is slow :( Well, normally you use the ROM only as a "boot device". You copy the Kernel into RAM and run it. Ram is not more expensive than ROM :) Wha

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jaswinder Singh
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: RE: Kernel executation from ROM > > You can laod the kernel from ROM, but it'll need RAM to execute. If you get to > be very good with the linker and loader, you

Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Kernel mailing list , what changes i have to made in kernel so that i can run kernel from ROM, means i keep my kernel in ROM and i execute my kernel from ROM . Thanks , Happy Hacking, Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr