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

[Quux]

Peter Stuge schrieb:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Quux wrote:
>   
>>>> A special (but simple) PCI card would be required.
>>>>         
>> 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
>>     
>
> The same money gets me a
> http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=HW-SPAR3E-SK-US
>
> which looks nice too, but doesn't have the PCI.
>
>   
clearly some bang for the buck. The MAXII people unfortunately sell the 
avove at 150 USD worldwide, but for 250 EURO in europe (rohs version) 
since recently.
quite a ripoff really. there is another PCI FPGA card  from another 
manufacturer but no cheaper either. Using the SERR signal on PCI bus may 
allow to call a NMI like debugging routine.   --Q