There are still no devices in PLCC32 - the only discrete devices are in DIP, TSOP and uBGA. The Millenium included a piece of SRAM from which it was possible to do a limited amount of XIP, but it appears to be dead now - I am not sure if the new devices have that SRAM technology in them or not - I have gone off Disk-on-chip personally - they are too restrictive with docs.
There is no reason at all not to use a DOM solution on the IDE bus with something like FILO - it should just work - there are also lots of alternative vendors for IDE-based DOM solutions by the way. Is there ANY other flash memory device on your Geode platform at all? And to answer your previous question - of course LinuxBIOS works with 2.6 kernels! Hamish > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Seb James > Sent: Mittwoch, 27. April 2005 13:26 > To: LinuxBIOS List > Subject: DiskOnChip and PLCC32 packages > > > 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 > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 25.04.2005 > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 25.04.2005 _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
