[olpc-software] Which BIOS will OLPC have ?

[Ronald G Minnich]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:34:07PM +0530, Sunny Sachanandani wrote:
> 
>>I personally think LinuxBIOS is the best choice: It cant boot fast and is 
>>quite lightweight.
> 
> 
> Chunks of the geode PC hardware are emulated by SMM/SMI traps so you actually
> need some quite funky and non-free BIOS firmware blocks.

actually, amd is releasing that source. Plus, we are really limiting our 
use of it, and in the long run, would like to remove it entirely.

Alan, I understand there is a tiny usb driver for mass store, is there a 
pointer somewhere to this? the standard usb driver is too big.

thanks

ron