[OLPC-devel] SST 49LF008A

[Mitch Bradley]

The socketed part is for development testing.

We are about to release a tool (within the next couple of days, we 
think) that you can
boot from a USB key and that will reprogram the soldered-down SPI FLASH with
LinuxBIOS.

The holdup at present is making sure that we have a kernel that works 
reasonably well
under LinuxBIOS.

stephen pearce wrote:
> Do you have to install this socketed part on the development board to
> install the linuxbios ...
> It's unclear to me whether you have to do this or can overwrite the
> Insyde Bios in the flash rom which must already be soldered on the
> motherboard.
>
> If the later is correct what is the purpose of the socketed flash rom?
>
> Lastly.. is there anyone who would be prepared to send me one or 2 of
> the SST 49LF008A
> .. I tried the local Avnet-VSI but they never replied .. locally they
> have little interest in supplying small part lots and generally charge
> heaps .. I would be happy to send
> some US $ to cover costs .. before the event .. as I presume it would
> not amount to much
> even with postage
>
>
> Sorry for the dumb questions ;~)
>