Hi, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger schrieb: > On 17.05.2010 18:27, Jörg Fischer wrote: >> Guenter schrieb: >> >>> a lot of Realtek RTL8139 NICs have a DIL-32 bootrom socket [...] >>> >> Many cards tie the "write enable" Pin to its logic "not enabled" state >> instead of connecting to the chip, so flash writes are impossible on >> _most_ card types I came across. YMMV. >> > > Ouch. Not really a good way to use the cards as programmers.
I have only 2 "known working" card types: SMC1211 TX with 10/100 RJ-54 AND 10Base-T (was quite expensive at its time), and "Longshine" cards with RTL8139C Chip. >> I have still some not-really-working code from my earlier experiments. I >> could read the chip-id and erase the chip - but the erase test failed >> afterwards, though the cips' contents seemed to be all 0xFF. >> > > Working ID and working erase, only with failing erase test? We had such > issues on multiple programmers, and it turned out that the timing in > flashrom was broken for the affected flash chips. This has since been > fixed, so maybe your code now works fine? Have not checked that for quite some time now. >> If you are still interested: The attached .c file contains details on >> how to talk to the flash chip on RTL 8139 NIC. >> > > IMHO any code which can at least get chip IDs is good enough to get > merged (disabled by default until all issues are fixed). That will allow > others to hack on the code and makes sure the code is not forgotten. > Could you please resend it as a complete patch with a Signed-off-by line? This may take some time, I am rather busy right now... -- J. Fischer _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
