Le mer 21/04/2004 à 02:20, ron minnich a écrit :
On 20 Apr 2004, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Same here.
I feel that the reliance on hotplugging flash chips has limited linuxbios audience to hard-core metal hackers.
but what else can you do? Can you afford a flash burner? The set of people who can afford this is smaller than the set of people who can hot plug.
1. I can't afford a "true" flash burner 2. Hot plug on PLCC (for example) leaves me (and others as it seems) worry : half a millimeter between chip pins and a working motherboard : what if i'am a bit stress and lift up badly the chip ? I got the answer...
It's where the difficulty relies : I find it a pity linuxbios offers so much and resolve via soft a lots of non Open/Free bios problems, and though couldn't free itself from this "mechanical" issue... if I can say so... :)
"Draft" Propositions :
1. why not building a flash_rom util which could send bios code steam via LTP, COM or USB, PCI : the aim not to touch the "working" bios(even though its not needed after boot time) . Plusvalue of this : Cold plug : Make a backup copy for example
2. trying to disconnect/diswire bios socket from the up mainboard (that is to say to get 0v on every pin of the socket) . Ideal view (mb manufacturers !) : get a jumper to handle this
3 ... err .. run dry
mathieu
I had not realized however that hot plug is such a big issue, so suggestions for alternatives that are affordable would be great
Thanks!
ron
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