Flashroms of more tha 2Mbits

[steven james]

Greetings,

Unfortunatly, on the older boards, it's physically impossible to have more
than a 4Mbit flash (many boards are limited to 2Mbit) because of not
enough address lines. The DoC gets around that by being able to page in
bits of the ROM kind of like EMM from the bad old days.

Newer boards that use LPC or Firmware Hub flashes usually come with 4 or
8Mbit and can (in theory) accept up to 32Mbit. In practice, the chipsets
may impose limits on that.

G'day,
sjames

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> is possible to find flashroms with at least 6 o 8 Mbits of Memory to 
> substitute the normal flashrom ..?, i prefer don't use DoC ...
> if it's possible, why you use DoC ? by price, by the possibiliti of Disk ?
> 
> 
> These days i was asking for many things about LinuxBios ..., this is 
> because i'm studing the possibility to make my final thesis over 
> LinuxBios ..., my objective is enlarge the capacities of kernel that is 
> running into flashrom, just like manage hardware directly, and other 
> things ..., for this reason i need more space in flashrom ..., and 
> understand rombios functionality ..., at the moment i only knew about 
> Linux Kernel ...
> 
> Thanks.
> Xavi.
> 
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