Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060831 23:55]: >> Another important issue is that flashrom should support many, many chips >> and baords, as few people will be willing to buy expensive hardware just >> for flashing. > >> There's Uniflash, but that has the problem of being Pascal+DOS, >> currently. I tried for a few minutes to build it with GNU Pascal or >> FreePascal, but that didn't work easily (needs more work, maybe). >> Has anybody else managed to build it for Linux? > > Uniflash works so well because it does 16bit bios calls itself. I am not > sure we want to do this. Maybe we do? Maybe with x86emu? Ollie? Ron?
Most PC BIOSes have a flash program in ROM, so x86emu won't help us much. The 16bit BIOS calls are just calls to that flash program. I know for sure that all recent Asus boards have awdflash or similar in their ROM image. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
