On 04/02/2010 01:51 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
as the subject suggests I have run flashrom on a DEC Alpha Digital
Personal Workstation [1], model 433au. flashrom itself segfaults but
superiotool finds a SuperIO at least.
Most DEC Alpha workstations are flashed using a proprietary flash
utility which is run from the the SRM console [2]. There are several
manuals on the net from DEC and Compaq which describe how to update
the firmware using the original utilities, for example [3].
I have no idea so far how to enable/disable writing to the flash rom
chips but I think it should not require any more magic than on x86 systems
;). Especially, because many of the Alpha systems are actually using
Intel chipsets. Usually those Alpha machines have a jumper onboard
which enables/disables flash write so there probably isn't the need
for a specific board enable at all. Probably it's just a matter of
finding the proper location of the address space of the flash chip in
memory.
Hello,
I am very familiar with the DEC Alpha's, and the SRM console. It was a
hobby of mine for a while, being from New Hampshire (where they were
made) and all. First Processor to hit 1GHz in the late 80's. For sure
the first 64bit machine I owned (not from the 80's though). Anyways, I
didn't do much firmware updating on them, but I would be glad to answer
any general Alpha questions you have.
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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