I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to use the Linux MTD framework. I have begun porting devbios to it. I have refactored devbios into two halves, devbios and a flash library/map library. The MTD chip driver which uses the library is about half done.
Perhaps then the LinuxBIOS flash tool can be split into a map driver (the shadow control stuff) and a chip driver for the individual flash chips, then included into MTD. Regards, Jeremy PS - I've used Uniflash, it's very old code with lots of nice global variables and such, but it did help me get an Atmel flash chip working. On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 05:42, Alexander Amelkin wrote: > Hello guys! > > Yesterday I spent the day fighting the flash_rom on my pcchips > m787cl+ board (SiS630). It just won't work. It mmaps correctly and I > can read the BIOS (i created a flash_save tool based on the > flash_rom.c code), but the chip identification just doesn't work. My > assumption is that it doesn't disable Shadow memory before sending > the SoftID sequence to the flash. Btw, the 'flash_and_burn' thing > simply doesn't compile complaining on the absence of the 'pci/pci.h' > file. So I use flash_rom.c from the 'sis630' directory. > > But that was just a preface. What I was going to say here is after I > gave up fighting with the flash_rom.c, I started searching the > Internet for universal flash writers. And you know what? I found a > marvelous tool - Uniflash! It can flash almost any flash part on > almost any motherboard with any file you say. The tool is written in > Pascal for DOS and is open source. I think those of you here who > are into the development of the flash_rom.c can use that source to > make flash_rom.c way more compatible than it is now. > > For now I prefer using Uniflash from DOS. It made my m787cl+ boot > LinixBIOS in less than a minute after I spent the day fighting the > flash_rom.c :)))) > > Here is the link: > http://www.krizovakomunikacia.sk/rainbow/programs.html#UniFlash > > With best regards, > Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reactor Critical - 3D Hardware reviews > http://www.reactor.ru - in Russian > http://www.reactorcritical.com - in English > > --8<--just-a-cookie---------------------------------------------- > Those who contemn Real Programmers are contemned by them more than > those who contemn them contemn them. If you understood that then > you're a Real Programmer. > --8<------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
