[coreboot] VGA and Asus a8v-e_se

Jonathan Rogers jonathanrrogers at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 10:24:25 CET 2008


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Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Am Montag, den 03.03.2008, 23:06 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Rogers:
>> BTW, how are flash chip sizes detected? All of the images I've
>> generated
>> using coreboot or saved using flashrom on this board are 512KiB, but the
>> manual indicates that it has 4MiB of flash. Is the manual lying? I'm
> I guess that's 512 kilobytes vs. 4 megabits?
> Memory chip sizes are usually specified in bits.

This is the exact text from the user manual PDF:

BIOS features 4 MB Flash ROM, Award BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0,
                SM BIOS 2.3

So, does that mean 4 megabits? If so, that's even less than 512KiB
(524288 byte) images I've been writing, which are actually about 4.19
megabits.

Jonathan Rogers
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