[LinuxBIOS] rom-madness: CFI vs FWH vs SPI, 5V, 3.3, ...

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Tue Apr 10 08:52:21 CEST 2007


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:31:55PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> FYI, a FLASH company rep at a conference last week told me that 128
> Mbit SPI parts (16 MBYTE!) are coming. It's going to be easier and
> easier to just put linux in the FLASH part, along with an initrd.
> Neat things will be possible.

Nice!

The only problem now is that southbridges don't decode more than 1 or
max 2 MByte to the flash chip. But that will go up too of course.


//Peter




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