that is the point - the issue was discussed here a couple of days ago.
a regular PCI expansion BIOS is called too late during POST by legacy BIOS. The Altera MAXII has a patch field to put a flash mem into.
this PCI space mapping business is the key point. chipset's provide for booting from PCI space but I wonder whether they need to be told to do so by a hardware switch / signal or whether a small patching of legacy bios would do the trick. --Q
Bari Ari schrieb:
ron minnich wrote:
So, are there proto cards out there with nothing but a flash part on them?
There are cheap ~$15 SCSI cards around and also PCI media card readers for ~$30.
If the ROM's on NIC's show up during boot, then cards are available for under $5. But I don't recall any of them mapping the ROM to any PCI space.
-Bari