Carlos Knowlton wrote:
>
> Dear LinuxBIOS Guy,
>
> I'm a big fan of quick boot times, and have been looking for some kind of
> _affordable_ boot-from-flash Linux solution for a while now. I was quite
> pleased to see that your crew has also been working on this, and have
> apparently had much successor far (keep up the good work! =). Anyway, I
> read the following on your news site at
> http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/news/index.html
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> "10/4/00: Millenium Disk-on-Chip 2001 works on SiS 630 mainboards; Source
> reorganization pending
> Thanks to Ollie Lho of SiS, we are now able to replace the 512Kbyte FLASH
> parts with an 8 Mbyte Millenium Disk-on-Chip 2001. Kernel size restrictions
> are a thing of the past. Boot is fast. And, in future, we can put the
> 24Mbyte part on the mainboard and put a small compressed root file system. "
> --------------
> Millennium Disk-on-Chip (DoC) 2001: Is this chip from M-Systems? Where can
> I get one?
>
Yes, from M-system.
> I've never heard of the "2001", but when I contacted M-Systems, they said I
> couldn't put a DoC 2000 or Millennium in a standard MB as a replacement of
> the BIOS chip. This is why the above article grabbed my attention. What is
> needed to do this?
>
DoC2001 == DoC Millennium, it is an alias the LinuxMTD developer David Woodhouse
gave to it.
You surely can replace your BIOS flash on ANY STANDARD SiS630 M/B with DoC
Millennium. And trust me, there are already a lot of people doing this now.
The reason that M-System answered you the other way is THEY DON'T have the
software technology (LinuxBIOS) to do this.
Ollie
