Ollie, THis is another approch, but the of course losing 128k of address space, which I guess is not a problem, but also, I totally agree with you, it is adding an extra flash device, which is why the original Millennium was not a bad solution, except for all of the other baggage that it brought along with itself!
Hamish > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ollie lho > Sent: 09 September 2002 01:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Ronald G Minnich; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: The DoC problem > > > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 18:03, Hamish Guthrie (Mail Lists) wrote: > > I think the DoC mess is here to stay, there is one potential solution if > > people are insisting on having DoC, and that is to make up a > little board > > which plugs into a BIOS socket which has both a 256k flash device and a > > little bit of decode logic for a DoC, as well as a DoC - if anyone is > > interested in this approach, I could knock together a few > prototypes for a > > couple of $'s, but I have my reservations as to this being a permanent > > long-term solution for production systems. > > > > Actually this is very easy, The DoC requires only 8kB address window, if > we use a 128KB flash EEPROM for LinuxBIOS, we still have the MSB address > line free to acts as Chip Select. I believe this have been done by > someone in Austria (sorry, I forgot the name) before. On the other > hand, we lost the beauty of "only one flash needed". > > Ollie > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
