Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes you can do that with ELF. > > > > The big gotcha is going to be that there are pirq tables current > > stored at 0xf0000 that you are not going to want to stomp. > > Actually thats not that much of an issue. It currently stomps it already > > ADLO has that table broken out into a single binary file. All I do is > copy the table binary table generated with linubios into the adlo > build file and it gets stuck in the adlo image. Loader.s copies it > to a specific location. > So really if you loaded loader and ADLO code after the linuxbios PIRQ > table location and then tweaked loader to not make a PIRQ it should be > fine. > > Not haveing to do the PIRQ table copy would be nice but its pretty > trival. A script to do it automatically would be easy.
The fact that ADLO has to manually customized per board is what keeps it from being a lot more generally usable. > > The fun question. Can I make the bochs bios useable on a system > > after the linux kernel has run. Load it with kexec and then boot windows? > > > > If LinuxBIOS is the native bios this should be no extra challenge. If the > > native BIOS is something else life gets a little more interesting. > > That _is_ a fun quesition.. I don't think you would have too many > problems though. The ADLO bios is used to running on systems that > already have everything setup. It does minimal hardware setup. If > you put everything in the right spot and modified the loader so that > it didn't copy anything I think it will work. > > kexec loads an elf right? So this would be pretty easy to test. Yes /sbin/kkexec loads an elf among other things. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
