RE: [LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions

[YhLu]

In CMOS? unbelievable. 
Factory personal and service guys will keep kicking the design engineer and
blaming their design.

YH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:04 PM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions
>
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, YhLu wrote:
> > don't need,
> > good hw design should use one serial EEPROM to store MAC
>
> address,
> > So when flash the BIOS, the EEPROM is still there.
>
> yes, but there were some sis-630 based cards several years 
> ago that stored MAC in FLASH and CMOS.
>
> SO to upgrade FLASH:
> make sure address is in cmos
> write flash
> write MAC back to flash.
>
> There are some stupid designs out there.
>
> ron

[LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, YhLu wrote:
> In CMOS? unbelievable.

yeah, I had a node once with a mac of 00:00:00:00:00:00. I kid you not. 
Worked fine.

The manufacturer did this to save the cost of an SEEPROM.

ron