ron minnich wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 2:42 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> In regards to the DIVIL_BALL settings. FlashROM checks to see what device >>> was >>> booted from (i.e. LPC, flash controller) before the flash device is >>> identified. If the >>> boot device is the flash controller, FlashROM has to flip the IDE/flash >>> switch before >>> any accesses to the flash device since the IDE interface is most likely >>> where >>> FlashROM and any BIOS images exist. > > I don't get this one either. What does the IDE/FLASH switch have to do > with BIOS? > If the system uses flash storage instead of IDE it could also use flash for the BIOS. The above comments are correct about doing the switch but why boot from flash and switch to IDE? If it is an IDE based storage system put the BIOS on LPC like normal. A way to work around the image source problem is to use a USB drive. Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Firmware Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
