[LinuxBIOS] where to buy 2MB flash parts? / upgrade poss. ?

Quux pawn2be.wild at yahoo.de
Thu May 10 01:57:12 CEST 2007


Peter Stuge schrieb:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:22:53PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
>   
>> On 5/9/07, Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> However, the southbridge needs to decode the full 2Mbyte (these
>>> are 16Mbit parts) address range for it to be useful in practice.
>>>       
>> blast. A lot of the SB parts I looked at, years ago, reserved the
>> top 2M of the 2 GB space.
>>     
>
> Hm? It's at the top of 4GB.
>
>
>   
>> so it is something we have to check, and it might make sense to
>> keep the info on the wiki.
>>     
>
> I'd like to see it in the southbridge dts for v3, maybe as an option
> in v2. That way it can limit output rom file size in v3 menuconfig
> and also be used to generate a webpage. (Wiki or not? Is it easy to
> generate wiki pages from the tree?)
I 've put it in the discussion page of M57SLI board. Maybe s.o. tries it 
on a socketed board some time.  --Q





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