Re: bootrom size

["Pavel Tkatchouk" <ptkatcho@portal.ca>]

> From: Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>
> To: netboot@baghira.han.de
> Subject: Re: bootrom size
> Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 1:01 AM
> 
> Why would you like to do that? makerom always creates a bootrom image
which
> is suitable in size to hold the bootrom code. This is presently limited
to
> 64kB, 128kB with the next version which is due for release. There is no
> provision for selecting an arbitrary size, but it can be added simply.
> However, I don't see it to be necessary, as it shouldn't matter what size
> you select for the EPROM as long as it is large enough to hold the
bootrom
> image.
> 

One possible scenario would be putting bootrom not in EPROM. For example,
there are
no EPROM (on the NIC card) in the SBC we're using, just one flash holding
everything 
- BIOS, init code for some proprietary hardware and bootprom. So every Kb
is counted.

Pavel