not as I know of, but there is $150 Altera devKit PCI card, which clearly could do the trick, and some more !
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-maxii-1270.html even a bare proto card can easily cost $40-60 these days. though DIY cost maybe $20 would one have to add little switches onboard connected to the chipset ? --Q ron minnich schrieb: > 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