Re: [LinuxBIOS] 2MB flash parts - chipset decoding anyone?

[Jeremy Jackson]

Ok, what about the AMD K8 Northbridge?  I haven't found what lets the
BIOS ROM work after power on reset, would that need to be adjusted as
well?

Regards,

Jeremy

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 01:17 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:04:16AM +0200, Quux wrote:
> > is it poss. to upgrade a mainboard, say GA M57SLI, from 1 MBit
> > flash to 2 Mbit on the secondary pad ?   --Q
>
> In theory there is no problem.
>
> However, the southbridge needs to decode the full 2Mbyte (these
> are 16Mbit parts) address range for it to be useful in practice.
>
> Check out the southbridge data sheets. I've only seen options to
> decode 1Mbyte in the few southbridge docs I've looked at.
>
> //Peter