Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de [060831 23:55]:
Another important issue is that flashrom should support many, many chips and baords, as few people will be willing to buy expensive hardware just for flashing.
There's Uniflash, but that has the problem of being Pascal+DOS, currently. I tried for a few minutes to build it with GNU Pascal or FreePascal, but that didn't work easily (needs more work, maybe). Has anybody else managed to build it for Linux?
Uniflash works so well because it does 16bit bios calls itself. I am not sure we want to do this. Maybe we do? Maybe with x86emu? Ollie? Ron?
Most PC BIOSes have a flash program in ROM, so x86emu won't help us much. The 16bit BIOS calls are just calls to that flash program. I know for sure that all recent Asus boards have awdflash or similar in their ROM image.
Regards, Carl-Daniel