From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed,  1 Dec 2004 09:03:22 -0700
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
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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