Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2007 18:32:28 schrieb Ward Vandewege:
I have updated the M57SLI build tutorial to indicate that the SOIC hardware hack has been confirmed. I really need to get the components so I can do it too on my board.
thanks for adding it to the wiki, because i've no account right now. getting these chips is quite hard, here in europe, but i'd recommend you, to try to get a serial eeprom, with more capacity, because with the mx25l4005 you just have 512kb space, and linuxbios with LAB as payload would require 1024kb.
as reported here (http://linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-September/024494.html), it is no problem to use an eeprom with more capacity. also documented (here http://linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-September/024189.html and here http://linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-September/024196.html) is, that the clock signal is either 16mhz or 25mhz, but not the 85mhz wich are documented in the 85mhz wich the MX25L4005A has. so i think, that it should be no problem to add an s.eeprom with more capacity and lower clock rate. (and also the manufacturer shouldn't mind. when the technical specifications are the same/nearly the same).
Thanks! Ward.
regards, harald