From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946335AbXEADi2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946338AbXEADi2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:38:28 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:56830 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946335AbXEADi1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:38:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4636B626.5040702@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:38:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Dave Jones , linux-kernel , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> <20070501015115.GJ26601@redhat.com> <4636A332.2070101@zytor.com> <20070501034612.GK25929@bingen.suse.de> <4636ABE3.5070502@zytor.com> <20070501042939.GM25929@bingen.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070501042939.GM25929@bingen.suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > > At least my Asus board with 8Mb flash doesn't have anything called that. > There is also no special preboot environment > > iirc Asus ships dual BIOS though, but even half that compressed is a lot. > 8 Mb or 8 MB? Big difference... So you have 512K worth of compressed code, most of which is running the configuration menus and code to do initialization and setup of the runtime environment (build tables, and so on.) That's not really BIOS, per se, in the sense of an interface; any firmware has to do that stuff no matter what. -hpa