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Re: A couple of ROM questions...



>Hello, Just a couple of questions about ROMs...
>
>1) Can a 27C256 ROM be used for etherboot (even if the images are only 16KB)

If your NIC accepts them, yes. Just program the first half and leave
the second half blank. Even if it only takes a 27128 max, you might find
that the top address line is tied to 1 or 0 and so a 27256 will work if
you put the image in the top half or bottom half of the ROM respectively.

>2) What format are the ROM images in? (it seems by EPROM burner 
>doesn't recognize .rom files)

Raw binary. If you need Intel hex format, there's a converter in contrib/
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