> > I like this. For a while I have wanted to figure out how I could burn a
> > minimal kernel into the motherboard flash (kill all BIOS's!!) with just
> > enough drivers to bring up the devices and LKM everything else from what
> > used to be called my "boot" device.
> 
> Yes, just a minikernel with drivers to access the root-filesystem and the
> console. You still need a hardware description somewhere on the root-filesystem,
> which describes your configuration, but it'll make driver development and
> installation stuff so much easier (take that install floppy and this floppy
> with the device-driver for your non-standard hardware ... and lets you
> change parameters before probing/attaching the device).

I have just loaded soundard driver this way, I don't think we are missing much.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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