On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 21:03 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
David Hendricks wrote:
If all you need is a reprogrammer, you can always use the hot swap trick (Described on this list and the wiki). Or better yet, for about $25US ( http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=bios+savior&btnG=Search ) you can get a BIOS Savior to make the process less hazardous to your mainboard's health. It's a piggyback device with a switch so you don't even need to remove it once installed--Just flip the switch to go back and forth between ROMs.
The OLPC BIOS chip is soldered on the board, so the BIOS saviour and the hot swap trick unfortunately won't work.
The OLPC rev A should have a socket for the LPC flash rom.
Semi-OT: Does Google use LinuxBIOS? AFAICS that would be a natural fit.
Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/