[LinuxBIOS] PhyWrite [SPI flash-chips] PCI ROM

Quux pawn2be.wild at yahoo.de
Wed Mar 14 08:45:51 CET 2007


Peter Stuge schrieb:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:44:27AM +0100, Quux wrote:
>   
>> If booting from PCI expansion ROM can be made possible,

>> Not any expansion ROM. It just sends BIOS accesses to PCI instead of
>>     
>> LPC or SPI. A special (but simple) PCI card would be required.
>>
>> I don't know if this feature is common on most northbridges.
this is where Altera CPLD DevKit MAXII  comes into play ... 
http://www.buyaltera.com/scripts/partsearch.dll/partdetail?site=ALTERA;lang=EN;part=544-1136-ND


other debugging functions can be implemented ...    --Q




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