[coreboot] [flashrom] nic3com: A thanks, a question and a suggestion

[Uwe Hermann]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:45:02PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Urja Rannikko wrote:
> > Anyways, does anyone know how big flash chips these 3com's support?
> > The SST i tested is 128k - i can propably (given time) test 256k
> > also, but just curious.
> 
> The theoretical limit is 512k, which would use all of the 32 PLCC
> leads.
> 
> But it really depends on how many address lines are connected from
> the NIC to the flash chip.

Yep. As per datasheet, you have 17 address lines for the B and also C
variants of the cards, so a max. of 128KB chips.


Uwe.
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