[OPENBIOS]: EEPROM size

[Matthew Sullivan]

Hi

Matthias Wächter wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eric R. Kern wrote:
>
> > This provides for plenty of code space, especially when you consider
> > that modern EEPROMs shipping with systems are typically 512K bytes.
>
> Sure? Does anyone have sort of a "table" showing which typical motherboard
> has which EEPROMs and its size?
>
> I always thought of having only 128 kB of EEPROM memory. Well, if this
> would be 256 kB or even 512 kB (and, as you said, think of compression),
> then there would be no real need to have any code on the hard disk, I
> mean, to complete the BIOS code.
>
> Well, this size ... could contain a miniature Linux kernel plus some
> applications to boot that system... oh, just a thought.

At 512k you could get a complete Linux Kernel in it....

Yours

Matthew
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