Tom Sylla wrote: > SPI is becoming a darling boot source, it is only 2 wires, and the > ROMs are physically much smaller, but are similar densities to PLCCs. > SPIs right now are mostly SO-8s, and socketing SO-8s is an expensive > thing to do (much more expensive than a PLCC socket). The SPI ROMs > themselves, however, are cheaper than their LPC/FWH PLCC counterparts. > That is what makes me think SPI will take over soon. Maybe that is > wrong, and PLCCs will last 5 more years, who knows. (NAND may also be > a near term option on some southbridges) >
certainly in embedded soldered-on is attractive. Our job will get harder, but I think we will have to work it out. ron -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
