"Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I really want to find out what the rom situation is with AMD760 MPX > > chipset. If I read it right this is the first non-intel system with > > LPC only support. Which makes large roms much more practical. But > > I still might be reading the situation wrong.
> What's LPC? A replacement for DIP32? Actually, I was dumb-struck when > I discovered that my new ASUS board has no ISA slots :-( All PCI ... LPC == Low Pin Count. Basically it is a replacement for the ISA bus that runs at 33Mhz, but on fewer pins. And clocks things like addresses accross. So a flash chip in a dip32/plcc32 package could potentially be much larger than todays limit of 512KByte. So in a year or so we might have some real competition to the DOC that we can use on standard motherboards. Currently all I have seen is the 82802 intels firmware hub. Which shows some potential but doesn't go above 1MB. Eric
