I note from various messages around 2000/2001 that there used to be no DiskOnChip modules in a PLCC32 package. I also read that basically the M-Systems DoC Millenium chip was the only DoC supported by linuxBIOS (was it the only one available?)
Does anyone know of a part available today that would replace a PLCC32 bios chip as a 4 or 8 MByte DiskOnChip device? I see also that the Via Epia has been set up with LinuxBIOS and etherboot on a 256 KByte bios. Has anyone yet added support for storing the Linux kernel on a flash DOM on the IDE bus and using LinuxBIOS to boot from that? I know that it wasn't the original intention of the project (and that Ron didn't want to do it in 2000/2001), but just curious if that support was ever added. The reason for the questions is that I'm stuck with a PLCC socket in my Geode based mainboard and I can't network boot. My project will really be enhanced by using a DoC in the existing BIOS socket, but failing that I'd still like to use a free software bios and boot from the IDE device. Perhaps I'm better off looking at U-Boot or OpenBIOS? However, I like the fact that LinuxBIOS switches straight into full speed 32 bit mode and gets everything done so quickly! Ok, enough rambling. Seb -- Hypercube Systems Ltd 'Embedded Linux Solutions' 35 Walkley Crescent Road, Sheffield, S6 5BA Tel: 0845 4580277 Web: www.hypercubesystems.co.uk gpg key: http://www.hypercubesystems.co.uk/ssl/seb.gpg.asc
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