In message: <20020106111356.E8178@real-time.com>
            Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com> writes:
: > The only problem with LinuxBIOS is that it is heavily slanted to
: > specific chipsets and x86, none of which are to be found in hpc
: > hardware :-)
: 
: absolutely true. if someone were to embark on a project like this, it may be
: better to just build a really simple loader of some sort... adapt the NetBSD
: bootloader to the task? tho it would be cool if the loader could be
: generalized enough to support any OS.

hpcmips did recently get the ability to boot from a more raw boot
loader.  The hpcmips port was recently enhanced to work on a small
mips router from japan called the L-Router that has a vr4131 on it.

Warner