Hello !
> I think I may have made a mistake. It seems that this group is talking about
> a new motherboard. I thought we were talking about an accellerator card
> like thing. This may make the "bootrom" less "useless".
Yes, it looks like that we are talking about an accellerator card.
The x86 motherboards acts as a "big cpu-controlled power supply" :-)
Nevertheless, there should be a boot prom. I just have finished
a design where slave cpus load their code from a shared ram.
I will *never* do this again !
Andy
P.S.: I might have to introduce myself too...
Please excuse my rather bad English. I'm a german, working
for Waldorf Electronics. We build high-end synthesizers and
other music stuff.
My job is hardware design and low-level programming,
mostly assembler code for 68K. I have experience with Mips-CPU's
too. We are using mips-machines for development, and I wrote
an R3000-Assembler for a 68k-based development system.
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