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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Sergey Reva <rs_rlab@mail.ru>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram
Date: Wed,  1 Dec 2004 09:03:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412010902410.24541@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4210899532.20041201173335@mail.ru>



On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Sergey Reva wrote:

> Hello 9fans,
> 
> I heard many ideas in this thread, but I don't hear comment for my offer:
> RS>  How about external FlashROM (24c01 - 128 bytes, 24c02 - 256 bytes
> RS>  and 24c04 - 512 bytes) on LPT (or COM) port through i2c bus. It's
> RS>  more easy and most standardised.
> I2C very easy bus and can be attached to LPT, COM or anything else
> (i2c controller integrated in system board). In this way you need:
>      1. 24c01(02, 03) IC (manufacturer Atmel or other)
>      2. 4 wires (SDA, SCL, plus, minus)
>      3. LPT connector
>      4. maybe 2-3 diodes
>      5. Cold head, hot heart and direct hands :-)

you want to do that 60 or 100 times? I don't. sorry. 

> Disk emulation (CF-IDE and other), usbflash it's very $$$ way!

usbflash. Good idea. 

> New idea: create special nvram driver with parameter setted while
> compilation. This is bad idea, this my opinion, but costless.

not a bad idea for some applications. 

ron


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-01 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-28 17:07 Steve Simon
2004-11-29 11:42 ` Matthias Teege
2004-11-29 12:05   ` geoff
2004-11-29 15:11 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-29 18:13   ` Steve Simon
2004-11-29 18:49     ` Sergey Reva
2004-11-30  7:58     ` geoff
2004-11-30 15:48       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 16:28       ` Jason Gurtz
2004-11-30 16:36         ` Nigel Roles
2004-11-30 16:46           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 18:30             ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 19:44               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 19:54                 ` rog
2004-11-30 19:51                   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 21:57                     ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30  2:08 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-11-30  9:14   ` [9fans] usb storage (was Re: pxe - nvram) Richard Miller
2004-12-01 15:33 ` [9fans] pxe - nvram Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 16:03   ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2004-12-01 18:18     ` Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 18:30       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-01 18:42         ` Jack Johnson

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