On 29.11.2007 19:34, Richard Smith wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> For SPI flash size, the limitation is not how much the chipset can >> support, but how much the SPI translation feature in the IT8716F can >> support. > > Are you talking about LCP reads -> SPI reads translation?
Yes. > If so I only need that for the initial boot. After that I can issue > SPI read commands directly to the device. Which is a little bit slow/inefficient. I suspect that using a USB storage device (together with early USB initialization) will give you better overall performance. > Is there some other limitation in the IT8716F you know of that won't > let me read the full 24 bits of address? The datasheet is sparse but > seems pretty straight forward. All the necessary registers and bits > appear documented. I am not aware of any other limitation. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
