[LinuxBIOS] where to buy 2MB flash parts? / upgrade poss. ?

[ron minnich]

On 5/9/07, Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:04:16AM +0200, Quux wrote:
> > is it poss. to upgrade a mainboard, say GA M57SLI, from 1 MBit
> > flash to 2 Mbit on the secondary pad ?   --Q
>
> In theory there is no problem.
>
> However, the southbridge needs to decode the full 2Mbyte (these
> are 16Mbit parts) address range for it to be useful in practice.

blast. A lot of the SB parts I looked at, years ago, reserved the top
2M of the 2 GB space.

so it is something we have to check, and it might make sense to keep
the info on the wiki.

ron