Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios Digest, Vol 25, Issue 71

[C.-Valentin Schmitt]

I dont know ! I have no clue !

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kingston ???
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> Re: Flashrom and AM29LV040B flash chip (Peter Stuge)
> Re: filo ide speedup patch? (Peter Stuge)
> Re: linuxbios + xf86-video-unichrome: no VGA BIOS	needed.
> (Peter Stuge)
> Re: filo ide speedup patch? (Peter Stuge)
> Getting Friendly with Flashrom (David H. Barr)
> Re: Getting Friendly with Flashrom (Peter Stuge)
> Re: Is my hardware supported? (Corey Osgood)
> Re: northbridge docs ([e-mail])
> Re: northbridge docs (Corey Osgood)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:08:37 +0100
> From: Peter Stuge 
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom and AM29LV040B flash chip
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:46:34PM +0200, Priit Laes wrote:
> > How well does Flashrom work with AM29LV040B [1] flash chip?
>
> It should work out of the box, if not it will be trivial to add.
> > I took apart my old Dell Latitude C600 laptop with thoughts that I could
> > maybe get it working with LinuxBIOS, but well, chip itself is soldered
> > on the motherboard [2] (16 pins inside 8 millimeters) so I would first
> > have to figure out how to implement the hotswapping.
>
> Emulation Technology have a TSOP prototyping socket that you could
> solder on to the board instead of the TSOP chip. Then have a few TSOP
> chips to swap between.
>
> http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/
>
> Note that these sockets are rated for a minimum of 50 insert/remove
> cycles.
> > Also, does anyone have ideas where to order these flash chips
> > (PLCC) in Europe, preferably Finland?
>
> On the picture is a TSOP chip. Either way, I think Farnell or maybe
> Avnet are good sources for single quantity chips.
> > [2] http://plaes.org/files/2007-Q1/2007-03-18-latitude-c600-bios.jpg
>
> There are pads for a PLCC chip on the board. PLCC is much easier to
> work with so I would go for that instead of the TSOP. (Maybe that was
> your thought too.) You would have to scrape off the green lacquer to
> expose the pads but if done carefully with a steady hand and a sharp
> knife (or fibre glass brush) that's fairly easy.
>
> //Peter
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:20:53 +0100
> From: Peter Stuge 
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch?
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:36:44PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > Find attached a patch for timer2 and hard reset. I'm looking at
> > > FILO right now.
> >
> > The below patch works fine on my system, but some older versions of
> > the C3 lack support for the rdtsc command. (Nehemiah has it)
> >
> > Whereas the Centaur/Wincore is said to not have rdtsc.
>
> Aha!
> > I would assume the patch is wrong for the epia and right for the
> > epia-m.
> >
> > Do you mind dropping the epia part?
>
> Not at all, we should have working defaults, but I'll add a note to
> the wiki for people to enable it if they have Nehemiah.
>
> Can CONFIG_UDELAY_TSC=1 in targets/via/epia/Config.lb also
> automatically set CONFIG_UDELAY_IO=0 ?
>
> //Peter