In CMOS? unbelievable. Factory personal and service guys will keep kicking the design engineer and blaming their design.
YH > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:04 PM > To: YhLu > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions > > > > On Tue, 17 May 2005, YhLu wrote: > > > don't need, > > 1. good hw design should use one serial EEPROM to store MAC > address, > > So when flash the BIOS, the EEPROM is still there. > > yes, but there were some sis-630 based cards several years > ago that stored MAC in FLASH and CMOS. > > SO to upgrade FLASH: > - make sure address is in cmos > - write flash > - write MAC back to flash. > > > There are some stupid designs out there. > > ron > _______________________________________________ LinuxBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
