[LinuxBIOS] booting from PCI bus card

Quux pawn2be.wild at yahoo.de
Sun Apr 29 16:38:41 CEST 2007


that is the point - the issue was discussed here a couple of days ago.

a regular PCI expansion BIOS is called too late during POST by legacy 
BIOS. The Altera MAXII has a patch field to put a flash mem into.

this PCI space mapping business is the key point. chipset's provide for 
booting from PCI space but I wonder whether they need to be told to do 
so by a hardware switch / signal or whether a small patching of legacy 
bios would do the trick.   --Q

Bari Ari schrieb:
> ron minnich wrote:
>
>   
>> So, are there proto cards out there with nothing but a flash part on them?
>>     
>
> There are cheap ~$15 SCSI cards around and also PCI media card readers 
> for ~$30.
>
> If the ROM's on NIC's show up during boot, then cards are available for 
> under $5. But I don't recall any of them mapping the ROM to any PCI space.
>
> -Bari
>
>   





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