Figured out from scanning through the openbios/devbios code on howto unshadow the intel 440bx to be able to successfully load the MTD doc2001 module and have it successfully detect the DOC.
The devbios/openbios project can be found here: http://www.openbios.info/download/index.html And the url is at the bottom of the page for http://www.openbios.info/bin/devbios-0.3.2.tar.gz
Does anybody know if any of this is already in the MTD drivers? This code unshadows and gives access to many bios devices.
Went into the openbios/devbios/pcisets.c and commented out the two statements within the "static void intel4x0_deactivate(void)" function (this prevents the unshadowing after the bios.o module is loaded -- and while i was at it, uncommented the a printk debug statement). Loading the bios.o module shows the isa bridge info:
Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: host bridge is 8086, 7190, 0 Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: isa bridge is 8086, 7110, 38 Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: isa bridge cfg is 0x64 Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: isa bridge cfg is 0x64 Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: isa bridge cfg is 0x64 (last line repeated many times) Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: 0k flashchip (ID 0x5f1f) found at physical address 0xfff01000 (va=0xd8854000+0x101000). Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: Probing PCI device with 256k rom Jul 9 02:40:27 BIOS: Probing PCI device with 64k rom
Once I unshadowed the intel 440bx, the following script loads doc with ease:
#!/bin/bash modprobe doc2001 modprobe docprobe doc_config_location=0xfff00000
cat /proc/mtd
modprobe nft
If i'm correct, the unshadow code just needs to be written into MTD for everything to work easily? mm...guess i should post to MTD mailing list.