On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:13:32PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > let me point out that the recent code to use 3x905C > as a flashrom programmer, will almost certainly fail > for the predecessor 3c905B-TX (id 0x9055). The reason > being that there is a bug where the mii unit interferes. > Thus one needs to put the media subsystem into state 0x06, > i.e. internal mii, by a write to register window no. 3. > Then window no. 0 can be activated, any read or write > of flash may follow, and upon completion the old media > configuration should be restored. > > After much effort I found this out for my own class > of kernel modules aimed at using network cards for > in situ programming. > > Interested developers can glean the details off a > utility "bromutil.c" contributed with the Etherboot > or gPXE distribution. That code is not by me!
Thanks, should be fixed in latest flashrom. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
