Hi guys
Looks like great work here. I downloaded and built
LinuxBIOS V2 solely to use flashrom, however when I executed the binary it went
through all the probing and decided "no eeprom found", before promptly turning
the computer off.
All I want to do is read and write the contents of
my BIOS while running Linux - I'm sort of ok with my proprietary BIOS for
now!
My BIOS chip, as reported by UniFlash, is an AMIC
A29040(A/B)/5V. It also says the organisation is "sectored 8x64k (512k)" - dunno
if that's useful.
The chipset is Intel 845PE and that's running a
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz in an Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D 7830 Laptop.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could let me
know how long I'm looking at waiting to be able to use "flashrom". In fact, I
don't know any C but I'm always willing to have a poke around and if I could
somehow use the addressing and data that's coded into UniFlash (it's OSS)
to add my motherboard to flashbios' knowhow, a few pointers would set me into
happy tinkering mode.
Or indeed if there are any other methods of reading
from and/or writing to the BIOS under Linux - again, I'd be much
indebted.
Kind regards,
Raffaele de Leon