Just having had a look at one of the BIOS flash vendors - there are now devices up to 8Mbit available for both firmware hub and LPC - one vendor in particular has an 8Mbit flash device which attaches directly to LPC.
I have not looked to see which chipset vendors are supporting firmware hub, but according to a bit of documentation I saw, this is aimed at the i8xx chipsets, but it appears as though there is still the 8Mbit barrier.
I guess this all depends upon the application - is the application a purely embedded solution with only flash being used, or is it a case of being able to fit a kernel into the BIOS chip - for the latter case, I guess 8Mbit would be adequate.
Hamish
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org]On Behalf Of ollie lho Sent: 09 September 2002 09:12 To: Lee Cc: LinuxBIOS Mailing List Subject: Re: Any UK DiskOnChip Retailers?
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 09:56, Lee wrote:
Dear all, Thanks for the great advice, I really appreciate it. Is it possible to fit an EEPROM with a greater capacity than
the current
2MB one?
For current architecture, 4M bits is the limit. I have no idea about how Firmware HUB does.
Also, on an unrelated issue, I noticed that when I moved from Linux kernel 2.2.19 (c/o Debian Potato) to Linux kernel 2.4.18 (c/o Debian Woody) the Penguin logo on the framebuffer device at startup no longer has a pint of bitter statically linked to it's arm :D. Any Ideas why?
The Penguin Logo does changed from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.
Ollie
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