Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom with SST49FL080A

[Corey Osgood]

Nicholas Veeser wrote:
> So I have what I thought was an 8MB flash device on my motherboard. 
> (Tyan s2895)
> with this I am using the RD1-LPC8 as a backup.
>
> Well for my first test I read the flash from the original ROM.
> Flipped the switch on the RD1 and wrote it back.
> This did not seem to work.
>
> Looking at the files that I created from flashrom, it seems that
> flashrom is only reading 1024k of the device and storing that in a file.
>
> Is that on purpose?  Why is the file not 8MB?
>
> nicholas

The file is 8M-bit, ie 1M-Byte (8bits=1Byte). This is correct.

-Corey