17/09/2004 09:16:20, "Nick Bane" <nick@cecomputing.co.uk> 
wrote:

>Smallprint! 
>So this rules out the NOR-free booting from 16-bit NAND future 
we have been pondering?

Mostly, yes. 

>Admittedly, it may be a price worth paying especially as it 
permits the cpld to be a runtime chameleon. 
>I just wanted to be clear on the implications.

If I'd seen a Balloon2 boot from NAND, I'd be more tempted to 
leave that functionality in. However, it's tricky, untested, unproven, 
and not necessarily even possible. 
If it worked, and I could be sure that leaving the boot Flash off the 
board was safe (saving board space and routing resource), I'd be 
tempted. As it is, it's unproven, so I'd have to still fit the boot flash 
to the board. The only benefit would be that we could no-fit the 
boot flash once NAND-boot worked. That's a small cost saving - 
nice, but no more than that. (And, to be honest, I'd like Balloon to 
be bootable by conventional bootloaders, too. NAND-boot is 
going to be very tricky, even if it works.)

Steve