The 49LF008A was added to flash_rom just recently. You should be able to use any mainboard with the appropriate socket and one of these southbridges: SiS630, SiS5595, Intel E7500, VIA VT8231, VIA VT8235, AMD SC1100, AMD CS5530, AMD 8111.
The AMDSC1100 was the southbridge on some GX1 based boards we used here at the Lab a while back. I'm uncertain whether flash_rom will work with whatever is on your GX2 based board, but it might be worth a try. If it doesn't work, you can probably grab a cheap mainboard off pricewatch.com and use flash_rom anyway. Beats paying hundreds for specialized hardware plus some rediculous amount for an MS Windows license :)
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Vic Berdin wrote:
Hi,
This maybe the wrong list to post this but since you guys are into the field of creating your own BIOSware, I would like to ask if anyone knows of a device or equipment (connected via stadard PC port) that may be used in order to write data into a BIOS chip?
I am currently scouring the net for any material (software/hardware) that can aid me in safely replacing the BIOSware on an SST49LF008A FWH that socketted on an AMD GX2-based target board. The said board and SST chip is not (yet) supported (or listed) by this project.
However, our goal is to replace the existing BIOSware with Linux.
TIA - Vic
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