Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux
Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 18:22:21 +0200
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 02:56:26PM +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > One other small ROM that will check the Flash ROM's checksum and/or a jumper
> > on the board, and if it fails beep a tune on the speaker, and then expect a
> > raw Flash ROM image sent to it on the first serial port?
> >
> > That's the simplest way I think. A floppy could be used, too, but that'd mean
> > more complexity in the 'small ROM'.
> a floppy would be much better
> and then again, what about ls-120?
Ouch, you'd need to have a full IDE/ATAPI driver inside the non-writable part of the
ROM, which I don't think is a good idea.
Vojtech
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