are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question
Richard A. Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com
Fri Jan 10 12:11:01 CET 2003
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:13:27 +0000, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Thursday 09 January 2003 4:43 pm, Richard A. Smith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:54:14 +0000, Antony Stone wrote:
> > > If you have a flash chip big enough fro a kernel I don't think it'll fit
> > > into the normal 32 pin socket used by 2 mbit BIOS chips.
> >
> > A 29F040b is a 4 m-bit (512k) part and is a std jdec 32 pin pacakge.
> > I have managed to get a bios (commercial) + kernel in that. No root
> > disk though. Had to use a 2nd chip for that. (It was a custom board)
>
> How did you get a kernel into <512kbytes? What version did you start from?
>
2.4.2. You just have to turn off everything but the essentials.
Works out to 480k or so.
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Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
rsmith at bitworks.com 479.846.5777 x104
Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
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