On 04.03.2008 10:24, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Patrick Georgi wrote:
Am Montag, den 03.03.2008, 23:06 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Rogers:
BTW, how are flash chip sizes detected? All of the images I've generated using coreboot or saved using flashrom on this board are 512KiB,
but the
manual indicates that it has 4MiB of flash. Is the manual lying? I'm
I guess that's 512 kilobytes vs. 4 megabits? Memory chip sizes are usually specified in bits.
This is the exact text from the user manual PDF:
BIOS features 4 MB Flash ROM, Award BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3
So, does that mean 4 megabits? If so, that's even less than 512KiB (524288 byte) images I've been writing, which are actually about 4.19 megabits.
Think binary megabits. In that case, 4 megabits (which BIOS flash and mainboard vendors strangely write as "MB") is exactly 512 kiBytes.
Regards, Carl-Daniel