On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 13:57 +0200, Hamish Guthrie wrote: > 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
Great. Would LILO also function as a payload for LinuxBIOS? > - 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? Nope :( It has the bios chip (256 KByte/2 MBit PMC PM49FL002T) and an Apacer IDE flash DOM plugged onto a 44 pin IDE header. > And to answer your previous question - of course LinuxBIOS works with 2.6 > kernels! Good news. Thanks for the information. Do you have any prediction on how long you might take on the freebios->freebios2 Geode conversion? Would you like some help on it? I'd really like something to be working within a couple of weeks (!). 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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