Within BIOS in general and LinuxBIOS in particular, what is the largest workspace available. Are we limited to a 4 meg chip to store LinuxBIOS? Can we build or lever into some larger area?
Don Brown, Atlanta GA
On Monday 05 April 2004 3:41 pm, Don Brown wrote:
Within BIOS in general and LinuxBIOS in particular, what is the largest workspace available. Are we limited to a 4 meg chip to store LinuxBIOS? Can we build or lever into some larger area?
Depends on your motherboard (primarily - how many address lines go to the BIOS socket?).
If you use banked architectures such as DoC then you can access much larger amounts of storage on a device plugged into that socket, however I'm not sure if that meets your needs (maybe you're looking for a simple contiguous memory space)?
Regards,
Antony.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Don Brown wrote:
Within BIOS in general and LinuxBIOS in particular, what is the largest workspace available. Are we limited to a 4 meg chip to store LinuxBIOS? Can we build or lever into some larger area?
you can take as big an area as you want, but you need a chip that big. The limit is the chip, not linuxbios.
also, 4 meg: you mean megabits or megabytes? Lotsa confusion from people on this ...
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