From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:21:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4636B227.2020403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hcqx1bvg.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
>
>>> Not that the x86 BIOS is bad. It is nearly a marvel in it's simplicity
>>> and ubiquitousness,
>> Simplicity? That must be why x86 motherbords are shipping with (compressed)
>> 8MB BIOS flash chips now.
>
> Those would be 8 megabit chips, and those would be server motherboards
> you are looking. Most likely the ones that are starting to think ahead
> to EFI support.
>
No, 4-8 MB chips are starting to be deployed, but the bulk is for
OS-less applications.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 1:33 arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 1:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-01 1:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 7:46 ` Martin Mares
2007-05-02 9:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-03 2:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 19:05 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-05-01 1:51 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-01 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 2:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 2:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 4:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-01 3:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 2:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-01 2:59 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-01 20:32 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 21:01 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-01 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-14 4:51 ` Oleg Verych
2007-06-14 5:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-14 7:18 ` Oleg Verych
2007-05-01 22:59 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 23:18 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-02 18:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-02 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:07 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:20 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:39 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 22:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 22:49 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 23:18 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-03 2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:56 ` WANG Cong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-01 22:41 Vlad
2007-05-01 23:22 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 1:10 ` Vlad
2007-05-02 18:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
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