[LinuxBIOS] where to buy 2MB flash parts? / upgrade poss. ?

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Thu May 10 01:49:55 CEST 2007


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:22:53PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On 5/9/07, Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> wrote:
> > However, the southbridge needs to decode the full 2Mbyte (these
> > are 16Mbit parts) address range for it to be useful in practice.
> 
> blast. A lot of the SB parts I looked at, years ago, reserved the
> top 2M of the 2 GB space.

Hm? It's at the top of 4GB.


> so it is something we have to check, and it might make sense to
> keep the info on the wiki.

I'd like to see it in the southbridge dts for v3, maybe as an option
in v2. That way it can limit output rom file size in v3 menuconfig
and also be used to generate a webpage. (Wiki or not? Is it easy to
generate wiki pages from the tree?)


//Peter




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