[LinuxBIOS] 4mb Flash
Jody Belka
lists-linuxbios at pimb.org
Fri May 18 04:32:27 CEST 2007
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:21:43PM -0400, zooy0rk at zooy0rk.net wrote:
> I also purchased a 4mb SST39SF040 bios chip which according to the manual
> is in fact 4mb (http://www.sst.com/downloads/datasheet/S71147.pdf).
[...]
> Flash part is SST39SF040 (512 KB)
[...]
> As you can see, flashrom thinks this is only a 512KB chip.
[...]
> Can someone please shed some light
> on this situation for me? Am I missing something?
yep. flashrom is completely correct. The chip is 4 mega*bits*, which is the
same as 512 kilo*bytes*.
J
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Jody Belka
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