On 08/12/2005 01:19 AM, Jeff Carr wrote:
I tried the linux bios flash_rom utility today on a sis based board. I tried to read out the bios as a file. It failed. (output below)
I see now in the archive that the error: "EEPROM not found" came up on a thread last year. The thread ended in "find out what chip it is". As far as I know I can't see the BIOS chip on this portable. Oh well.
Then also something about using MTD. I guess I'll try that and see what MTD reports.
Is the BIOS chip on this machine really only 8KB in size? I find that really hard to believe.
I take it there aren't good programming manuals/data sheets for the M-Systems line of chips? I found one crappy document via google. That would be a shame; AMD and Intel seem real good about documenting their flash ships.
Jeff