On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:06:57AM +0200, ST wrote: > I tested writing to both chips and switching chips while running. > Thus i verified that: > * only one chip is written at a time, > * both chips are writeable, > * it is possible to switch the flash-rom's while running.
Nice! > So i think everything except the question about the direct ground > pulldown of the INIT# pins (with or without resistor) is clear that > it works as expected. > > Concerning the pulldown: I currently have only a jumper connected > to the chips Ideally you would have both INIT# pins pulled down instead of up, and then connect either of the two pins to the chipset INIT# output. > I also tried to build linuxbios with a linux payload, but somehow > the kernel bzImage was way to big to fit into the flash. Is it > possible to fit a 2.6.2x kernel into 4MBit flash-rom? That will be very tight, probably not possible without a lot of work. (Maybe try out linux-tiny.) But since you have a socket and are using LPC flash, you could try a 8Mbit (or even 16Mbit) flash chip and see if your chipset decodes that large a window to the flash. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
