[LinuxBIOS] what is the fastest speed of BIOS socket?

Miernik miernik at ffii.org
Wed Feb 8 02:11:41 CET 2006


Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> 
>> What I am thinking to do is to put very fast SRAM there (it should work,
>> shouldn't it?), 
> 
> No, it won't work. SRAM and DRAM operate very differently and have 
> entirely different interfaces. PC chipset memory controllers do not 
> support SRAM.

I think you misunderstood me. I didn't intend to put SRAM in the DRAM
sockets, but in the BIOS chip NOR flash socket. Isn't NOR flash read the
same way as SRAM (write is different of course, but I don't care about
writes here)?

Would that work?

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