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Re: RedBoot and eCos with biosless x86
- From: David Vrabel <dvrabel at arcom dot com>
- To: Brian Padalino <bpadalino at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:36:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot and eCos with biosless x86
- References: <288b5dff04062215424e6ff8e5@mail.gmail.com>
Brian Padalino wrote:
I am doing a port of eCos over to an extremely custom x86 board...
...the bios and if it is needed or should be emulated if RedBoot
and/or eCos is going to be ported over to the board.
No need for a BIOS or BIOS emulation. The i386 eCos only uses the BIOS
for initial program loading and basic CPU setup (memory controller, chip
selects and the like).
David Vrabel
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