On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:39:01PM +0200, Quux wrote: > Those two pdf's just show photo's,
Oh. :( > I guess it is pretty much established, that it's all about two plcc > in parallel with #CE activated individually. not that difficult > after all. Definately. This goes for any flash. I made http://stuge.se/ceswitch.png when discussing this with Anton Borisov. (Note only one switch should be closed at a time. I had no better symbol at hand.) > using a flip over socket avoids cutting the #CE line on the mobo if > there is no chipset output driving those 2 #CE signals. True, but there usually is.. Right? This is especially true on buses where more than one device is attached. E.g. LPC, with both the flash and a superio. > the Gigabyte patent also includes the firmware procedure to verify > flash content and to automatically select a valid chip without user > intervention. Yeah, it was using a watchdog that had to be disabled by the first BIOS software tried within a certain time. If not, the system would reset and try the other BIOS. > maybe one day they ship M57's with full dual bios : one legacy and > the other LinuxBIOS activated by default YEAH ! :-) --Q The big money win is when LinuxBIOS is the default and the other one is blank, then the board will cost $10-$15 less. (License fee Gigabyte pays for the Phoenix BIOS.) Having the full dual BIOS circuit populated would be nice, but I'm not sure all their customers would want to pay even $3 extra for it, since they would never use it. It's already very cool that it's so simple to add the manual switch to the board! //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
