Stefan, thanks for the clarification. I'd like to try the patch, will take a look at the patch in a few days - I have mostly rectangular versions (newer chip) but some board with older square versions, those are in use right now however.
On a seperate note - does anyone have pointers to the packaging of BIOS images - e.g. how to spot the boot/pxe code in the bigger picture? Mark On 3/10/2012 5:15 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:24:33 -0500 > Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wonder if there is a way to support the RTL8169 chipset, for SPI based >> programming. Very common and inexpensive card. > > we have an untested (probably outdated) patch for it: > http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/2489/ > the problem is, that there are multiple versions of the chipset. the > earlier revision(s?) have a square package and would support reading > and writing to the flash (and eeprom) chip. the latter and by far more > common version of the chipset does no longer support writing to the > flash chip. if your card(s) have a square RTL8169 chip then i can > update the patch for you to try. > >> >> Would be wonderful to support something like gPXE/iPXE PXE ROMs on those >> NICs. The typical 128kbit SPI rom/eprom/prom variations are often ATMEL >> or like. e.f. ATMEL518 93C64 > > please note that the chips with "93" in the name like above are eeproms > which are not supported at all by flashrom (please see > http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_chips to get a general > idea what series of memory devices can (easily) be supported). > _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
