[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] LBv3: fix printk format warnings
Juergen Beisert
juergen127 at kreuzholzen.de
Fri Aug 10 21:33:08 CEST 2007
On Friday 10 August 2007 21:13, ron minnich wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> > Award & Co have an 8K bootblock. We're planning on going from 16 to 64k
> > now?
>
> If Award is 8K, then we can argue that smaller bios'es suck more.
>
> I would like to take a chance on betting on flash getting bigger. I
> just talked to a company yesterday and they said "we can't afford to
> buy a smaller flash than 32 MB, so we did not worry about making our
> plan 9 install more compact"
Please consider not all chipsets can handle such large devices. So its
sometimes not important if you can buy larger flash devices: You can't use it
(on my system the BIOS window is only up to 16MiB, so how to handle 32MiB or
more?). But maybe my system is too old...
Juergen
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