On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:54:49AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
Don't mean to bug you or anything, but I've got a couple more questions, if you have the time: did you have to do anything with the southbridge code, or is that all set?
I haven't touched the southbridge code yet, but it seems to be supported already.
And please note, I'm merely writing code currently, I haven't yet actually _tested_ anything...
And did you start from scratch, or modify the code that was already there?
Both, partly. I don't want to do further cut'n'paste programming, there's enough of that in the tree already. I started mostly from scratch and tried to properly document the code. Some parts I'll reuse from the E7501 I guess, and the real know-how is in the V1 440BX code (which is working fine for me on my hardware, btw).
And a final question for anyone, if I were to do a flash and it not go well, do failsafes like key combonations to pull a bios off a floppy still work, or are those stored in the BIOS?
Won't work, see Ron's post. I have a local svn repository where I checkin all my proprietary BIOS images, so I won't lose them no matter how much I mess up. And I put one or more backups of them on real physical chips, of course.
Uwe.