Hello! I'm posting a modified version of Linuxflash. This program is used to program onboard flash on PPC based embedded boards.
I believe that the original version was written by somebody on this list (Dan Malek?) and then heavily modified. Since I cannot find any references to Linuxflash on http://lists.linuxppc.org/lists/linuxppc-embedded/ and http://freshmeat.net/ I'm posting it here in the hope to find the original maintainer. If anybody can give me the original version I could review the modifications and post a diff with only "progressive" changes. The problems fixed by me: 1) The size of flash is not taken from a table. Memory is allocated to the boundary where the firmware begins. This way, you can program as much as you want as long as the flash is there and you don't overwrite the firmware. 2) Much more sanity checks. No attempts are made to recover from hardware problems. Any suspicious behaviour causes error message and immediate exit. 3) Added support for L800BB90VC chips. 4) Most error messages modified to be more informative. 5) Fixed all compiler warnings. To sum up, the old version would often fail silently or give useless error messages like "Unknown Flash Type -2". I'm not sure if Linuxflash is the right name. Porting to NetBSD should be trivial. I'll be grateful if anybody gives me pointers to any existing software for programming flash. Regards, Pavel Roskin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: linuxflash.tar.gz Type: application/octet-stream Size: 3447 bytes Desc: Url : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20000810/2150b08b/attachment.obj
