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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/28/07, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > linuxbios@linuxbios.org > http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -= Human knowledge belongs to the world =-
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