On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:42:56PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:39:37PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:29:08PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote: > > > Sorry to jump in a bit late here, but for parallel flash, what > > > about using a NIC with a boot ROM socket? I've used that for > > > both PLCC32 and DIP32 parts. > > > > Sorry - what are you suggesting? :) > > Well, this is just for flashrom i think, you only tend to run > flashrom when running an operating system :) > > This is a good idea, and somebody on irc recently brought it up (too?).
Ah yes, for flashing chips! Great idea! > ctflasher has some (oddly licensed) code to this end, and there is > no need to copy this code, as the actual functionality is limited > to knowing which BAR to use and what offset address. ctflasher and > author should of course be mentioned for good measure. > > Now, the code in there is for: > * via rhine > * 3com vortex > * those intel 100base cards > * those common realtek chips. A good start I think. > Also, implementation wise, we might want flashrom to take in a > pcitag for this sort of flashing to be enabled. This is a > reasonably idiot proof solution as to not accidentally flash the > wrong rom to the wrong place. Mh. I would prefer to probe and do something sane by default. Of course -w is always required to actually write. For disambiguating if there are several PCI devices that could be used to flash I think as you say -p is a good idea. I guess the ISA bridge is one of them too. flashrom should list the PCI devices it sees that can be used to flash. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
