[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS through PCI / intel flash card

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Peter Stuge schrieb:
>> the manual states two separate memories: expansion rom and then the
>> rest of the flash mem.
>> I am somewhat sure it is not purely a PCI expansion ROM .
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> No it is definately not just an expansion ROM, but my point was that
> they designed it to hook into the system boot process with an
> expansion ROM that knew how to reach the rest of the flash.
>
> More generally speaking the board is overkill for our purposes since
> we only need a much simpler FPGA and less flash memory, since no
> chipset currently decodes more than 1MB at 4G anyway. Also their
> design uses lots of flash chips which is not really neccessary today
> when much larger flash chips are available.
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>   
>> maybe one should look at the verilog code stuff.
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> So I did, the top 7 bits (31-25) of the board's BAR0 set which
> address it listens to (PCI config space 0x10) and bits 22-2 are taken
> from the PCI read cycle.
>
> Bits 24-23 are ignored, so there are 2^23 effective addresses, each
> accessing a 32-bit word, total 32Mb.
>
> As for access to the expansion ROM, the VHDL is not complete.
> Specifically the signal ROM_HIT isn't set anywhere. It's likely to
> be set in the generic Xilinx LogiCORE VHDL for PCI devices.
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>> Intel does not sell the board but one might find the manual
>> interesting since it deals with our issue on a sidenote I believe.
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> Sure, "all" that is needed to make such a PCI card is an FPGA and
> flash memory. :)
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> //Pete
sry this got misaddressed