[LinuxBIOS] "Cache As RAM" asf.

Darmawan Salihun darmawan.salihun at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 16:18:26 CEST 2007


Maybe the following card is of some use:

http://www.uxd.nl/en/pages/producten/hardware/phdpci2.html

As for the cost, maybe it's better to use the Altera MAX II proposed by Quux

On 4/29/07, Darmawan Salihun <darmawan.salihun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ron,
>   I'm not sure about the existence of such a card. I used to hack an
> unused PCI Expansion Card (Adaptec SCSI Controller) to place my self-made
> code <http://www.geocities.com/mamanzip/Articles/Low_Cost_Embedded_x86_Teaching_Tool.html>.
> Maybe such approach can be used. Nonetheless, it means we needed a code to
> "clean-up" the original vendor BIOS code. Maybe this condition is not a good
> place to start :-(.
>
> On 4/29/07, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/28/07, Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 03:11:19PM +0200, Quux wrote:
> > > > do you think that PCI expansion ROM may be useful during the
> > > > developing phase in order to avoid soldering as on an GA M57sli
> > > > mobo ?
> > >
> > > Not an expansion ROM, that suggests the ROM is part of a PCI
> > > expansion card (sound card, networking card, graphics card, RAID card
> > > etc) but some southbridges support decoding the BIOS address range to
> > > the PCI bus. There has to be a jumper for this on the board in order
> > > to work.
> >
> >
> > I used to be a not very big fan of this idea, but my interest is
> > growing given the unwillingness of some companies (*****) to help.
> > This would allow us to grab control of the platform, although it is
> > pretty late in the process, but we could add this card to nodes and
> > force them to use linuxbiosmain and give us control over payload and
> > some other parameters. It is not an ideal solution, but it is a
> > transition path to full control. It would certainly be very helpful on
> > a dell cluster we have at sandia, because the bios situation on that
> > cluster is difficult to work with, to say the least.
> >
> > So, are there proto cards out there with nothing but a flash part on
> > them?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > ron
> >
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>
>
>
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