CFI flash in a PC?

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> I'm trying to find a way of putting CFI flash chips into a PC, just to make 
> my life easier for the development stage - I'm getting extremely tired of 
> having to download an entire kernel to the embedded ARM board I'm testing 
> on, and write it to the flash chips it boots from, every time I want to 
> change a line of code.

What I did for doing the JEDEC driver was just develope and test the
driver without a kernel to get all the communication issues sorted out. I
downloaded it using Angel, quite speedy that way.
 
> Anyone have any ideas where I can find preferably an ISA or PCI board with 
> CFI flash chips on it, or failing that an IA32 single board computer with 
> flash built-in and a network interface? UK suppliers preferred but not 
> essential.

They are not too hard to make, PLD and some chips is all it takes.

Jason



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