[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Remove Bitworks IMS

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Nov 29 14:26:48 CET 2007


On 29.11.2007 01:14, Richard Smith wrote:
> Great.  I'll have reason to do some linuxbios hacking soon.  I purchased 
> some GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 setups to build a Multi-TB RAID server. Parts 
> should arrive next week.  One goes into service with stock BIOS to get 
> going ASAP and the other gets LB.
>
> Ultimate plan is a LB based NAS with the only rotating media being the 
> SATA drives.  Ward tells me there's still a bit 'o hacking to be done to 
> all the get all the SATA slots up.  If I can I'd also like to upgrade 
> the SPI flash part to as big as the chipset will support and if thats 
> still not big enough to hold my kernel+rootfs then change to a USB nand 
> drive.
>   

For SPI flash size, the limitation is not how much the chipset can
support, but how much the SPI translation feature in the IT8716F can
support.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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