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Offline Orjan

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Re: z3fastlane ROM
« on: September 09, 2008, 05:02:16 PM »
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Zac67 wrote:
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hardlink wrote:
[...] but I thought at least the drivers in the ROM for most boards were copied to memory during Autoconfig(c)[...]


Since when? Kickstart never ever did that afaik, not even for 16 bit ROMs on 32 bit machines...

The photos I checked show 120 and 150 ns ROMs, so 200 ns might be too slow.  :-(


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hardlink wrote:
as opposed to Kickstart which is normally left in ROM.


He wasn´t talking about Kickstart ROMs, only drivers residing in ROMs on Zorro-cards, like the Fastlane.
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