AW: [OpenBIOS] OT: Bios access speeds

[Stephan Müller]

> After I reread your message, I figured that was what you were asking.  But
> here's my question, I guess:  what do you mean, "We can just wire the
> signals from the ISA bus."  How can you just pick what signal
> wires you use?
>  If the BIOS needs line x, you need to give it x!  And if the BIOS signal
> wires are already using ISA bus signal lines, then why would you
> have had a
> question about how fast the CPU access the BIOS?  In that case, the access
> speed to the BIOS would *have* to be ISA bus speeds!
>
> Of course, my understanding is not relevant to the working of
> your circuit.
> If you don't feel like wasting your time on my understanding, I would
> understand.  ;)
You can take a small ISA-prototype-card and a address-decoder (e.g.
74HC245).
With these 2 things you can connect a flash/eprom/prom/whatever to a
specific
location in the system-memory (first 16meg, i think on isa-bus)

ciao,
	stephan

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