Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux

Vagn Scott (vagn@IDT.NET)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:21:21 -0400

Stephen Williams wrote:
> After all (getting back on topic) the Linux on
> a specialized system board will probably be under
> constant upgrade, and one way for a user (even those
> without PROM programmers) to protect themselves from
> botched flash upgrades would be to keep a backup flash
> that would be popped in the socket.

How about putting 2 flash sockets on the board
and logic to ping-pong them. One jumper
to write-protect the whole shebang, and another
jumper to determine which is the boot and run
PROM, and which is a target for writing.

This also allows cloning systems without need for
a PROM burner.

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