The DoC problem

[Hamish Guthrie (Mail Lists)]

Ollie,

THis is another approch, but the of course losing 128k of address space,
which I guess is not a problem, but also, I totally agree with you, it is
adding an extra flash device, which is why the original Millennium was not a
bad solution, except for all of the other baggage that it brought along with
itself!

Hamish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org
> [mailto:linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org]On Behalf Of ollie lho
> Sent: 09 September 2002 01:00
> To: hamishl at dplanet.ch
> Cc: Ronald G Minnich; linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> Subject: RE: The DoC problem
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 18:03, Hamish Guthrie (Mail Lists) wrote:
> > I think the DoC mess is here to stay, there is one potential solution if
> > people are insisting on having DoC, and that is to make up a
> little board
> > which plugs into a BIOS socket which has both a 256k flash device and a
> > little bit of decode logic for a DoC, as well as a DoC - if anyone is
> > interested in this approach, I could knock together a few
> prototypes for a
> > couple of $'s, but I have my reservations as to this being a permanent
> > long-term solution for production systems.
> >
>
> Actually this is very easy, The DoC requires only 8kB address window, if
> we use a 128KB flash EEPROM for LinuxBIOS, we still have the MSB address
> line free to acts as Chip Select. I believe this have been done by
> someone in Austria (sorry, I forgot the name) before. On the other
> hand, we lost the beauty of "only one flash needed".
>
> Ollie
>
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