Flashing the Tyan S2642?

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

[ This is a resend; I inadvertently posted it the first time from a defunct
  e-mail acct. ]

Last weekend I was looking at installing LinuxBIOS on my Tyan S2462,
and got to the point of building the romimage, but couldn't figure out how
to flash it.  devbios (from CVS) reported (in /proc/bios) that it was an
unsupported Macronix part, and flash_rom (from linuxbios CVS) didn't
appear to recognize it either.

Am I doing something really stupid or simply looking in the wrong place?

Thanks,

Bill Rugolsky

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> Last weekend I was looking at installing LinuxBIOS on my Tyan S2462,
> and got to the point of building the romimage, but couldn't figure out how
> to flash it.  devbios (from CVS) reported (in /proc/bios) that it was an
> unsupported Macronix part, and flash_rom (from linuxbios CVS) didn't
> appear to recognize it either.

you're going to love this. You have to use the setpci command to set the
write enable for flash.

Better than that, what you should do is figure out how to make MTD work on
this board and then tell me what you did, as I can never get it to work.

ron

Ronald G Minnich  writes:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> > Last weekend I was looking at installing LinuxBIOS on my Tyan S2462,
> > and got to the point of building the romimage, but couldn't figure out how
> > to flash it.  devbios (from CVS) reported (in /proc/bios) that it was an
> > unsupported Macronix part, and flash_rom (from linuxbios CVS) didn't
> > appear to recognize it either.
>
> you're going to love this. You have to use the setpci command to set the
> write enable for flash.
>
> Better than that, what you should do is figure out how to make MTD work on
> this board and then tell me what you did, as I can never get it to work.

The drivers should appear to be in 2.4.19.  So compile the mtdchar support,
and the jedec_probe support, and the amd766rom support and it should work...

Eric

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:16:59PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The drivers should appear to be in 2.4.19.  So compile the mtdchar support,
> and the jedec_probe support, and the amd766rom support and it should work...

Thank you; I thought to look in MTD after firing off the e-mail and saw your
code and commit messages in the MTD CVS tree.  I will try with MTD next weekend
and report back.

Regards,

Bill Rugolsky

[steven james]

Greetings,

I hope to find that out shortly. I was going to do it Monday, but the
board I had turned out to be bad :-( Hopefullt today's board will be
better!

G'day,
sjames

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> [ This is a resend; I inadvertently posted it the first time from a defunct
>   e-mail acct. ]
>
> Last weekend I was looking at installing LinuxBIOS on my Tyan S2462,
> and got to the point of building the romimage, but couldn't figure out how
> to flash it.  devbios (from CVS) reported (in /proc/bios) that it was an
> unsupported Macronix part, and flash_rom (from linuxbios CVS) didn't
> appear to recognize it either.
>
> Am I doing something really stupid or simply looking in the wrong place?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Rugolsky
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