Hi Ron, everyone,
-----Original Message----- From: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:16 AM To: Vic Berdin Cc: Hendricks David W.; Linuxbios@Clustermatic.Org Subject: RE: A bit OT: external equipment for writing...
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Vic Berdin wrote:
This is good news! My companion southbridge chip however is an AMDCS5535.
try it, I think it will also work.
I've also been going through the Sis630 online doc in order to have an idea as to what I should do. Unfortunately, step 6 (replacing BIOS chip with a DOC), cannot be applied on my case. My target board has no DOC support. Either (1) burn the kernel image directly to the SST49LF008A chip that is socketted (not soldered) on the target board, or (2) get an external device that can write into an SST49LF008A. In an attempt to do option (1), I downloaded driver codes for 49LF008 from SST: http://www.sst.com/downloads/software_driver/SST49LF008A.txt, and tried to make use of the "int Check_SST_49LF008A()" function. Unfortunately, all I'm getting is a segfault. It seems that the code is referring to an invalid address that should be specific to my target SBC. Anyways, if I may ask the list, has anyone tried the approach to write directly into a BIOS chip using C when replacing the BIOSware? If so, any hints/source codes/etc?
ron
TIA - Vic