Boot from NAND flash ???

[Charles Manning]

On Tue, 14 May 2002 00:05, David Woodhouse wrote:
> manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz said:
> >  There are however two mechanisms to get around this: * Some people
> > and micros implement a "data pump" state machine to extract an
> > executable sequence from a NAND device.
>
> The DiskOnChip Millennium does this. Which is how it's used for LinuxBIOS
> -- the device has 512 bytes of SRAM which is initialised from the flash at
> reset time, and that's just about enough to initialise the system and pull
> the rest of the startup code off the flash.
>
> Note that the DiskOnChip 2000 has ROM instead of RAM, so you can't change
> the startup code from the PC BIOS extension header that it ships with,
> hence can't use it for such things.

Another difference is that the DOC's RAM and ROM are surely random access and 
hence can hold branching code etc.