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| From: | Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-embedded@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-embedded] boot linux without a bios on intel platform | ||
| Date: | Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:09:33 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20101223115530.26614.qmail@stuge.se | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-embedded] boot linux without a bios on intel platform by Kfir Lavi |
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| 1 | Kfir Lavi wrote: |
| 2 | > What I'm still not sure is if just the dram and the ide/sata is |
| 3 | > enough for linux. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | It is nowhere near enough. Firmware must also initialize and |
| 6 | enumerate all system busses, which usually means the CPU-chipset |
| 7 | interconnect, and PCI. And if you want video you must run the binary |
| 8 | blob that is the VGA BIOS. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | //Peter |