Maybe there is another answer. Clearly a big-enough flash EEPROM is the optimal solution. Someone mentioned motherboard manufacturers who asked about LinuxBIOS. If a manufacturer runs an extra address line through to the flash socket, there'd be a board to sell and promote as *especially* suited for use with LinuxBIOS.
Come to think of it - you might be able to help things along. I'd suggest that you prominently place on the front page of the LinuxBIOS web site a list of those motherboards well-suited for use with LinuxBIOS. That would be the list of motherboards that support 512Kbyte flash or bigger, and for which a LinuxBIOS port exists (a short list?). (Also put up dates to show what's recent). Place underneath this a contact address so a motherboard manufacturer knows exactly who to contact when they have something to add to the list. Place on another page all the other motherboards (as now). Maybe we can generate a bit of competitive pressure :). -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G Minnich Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 6:43 AM On 9 Sep 2002, ollie lho wrote: > 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". The question is: is this a product we can purchase and does it cost less than the motherboard? _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
