On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 18:25, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:37:37PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > Mathieu> I'd rather like to make a backup copy of my bios in another > > Mathieu> chip and then to cold plug this copy to work with Linuxbios. > > > > Mathieu> Has anyone felt this worry . > > > > Same here. > > > > I feel that the reliance on hotplugging flash chips has limited > > linuxbios audience to hard-core metal hackers. > > While it is obviously true that a number of people in the audience are > worried about hotplugging the BIOS ROM I don't think it has a very > negative impact yet - LinuxBIOS is getting closer and closer to a very > stable release but in order to get there, more hard-core hackers are > needed anyway to contribute support for various system components such > as CPUs, chipsets etc. > > Also, any BIOS software probably isn't targeted even at power users - > more so at system integrators and/or retailers, who are in a much > better financial position for getting "pro" BIOS tools such as a > standalone programmer. > > On the other hand, there's always the possibility of getting a > BIOS-saviour, or even a cheaper model standalone programmer at $200. > (They're usually not really good until up at $400-$500 though.) >
One of the problem I found with those standalone flash programmer is the speed. It take a long time to erase/program a flash chip with these programmers. And those programmers only work under Windows. This is very unproductive when one is in a modify/compile/test cycle. Ollie > > //Peter > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
