[LinuxBIOS] Uniflash.

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

I've stumbled over Uniflash recently (http://uniflash.org/) which is a
flashing program similar to flashrom.

I was lucky to find that I can use that to flash my W49F002U with that,
so I can now finally flash LinuxBIOS (and other) images.

The program is quite old, but supports lots of flash chips and
motherboards (http://uniflash.org/hardware.htm). As it has recently been GPL'd
I figure it might be interesting for LinuxBIOS in order to add support
for more chips (even though it's written in Pascal and is compiled to a
DOS *.exe file ;)

I'll try to figure out what it does that flashrom does not, in order to
be able to use flashrom; I'll post a patch for flashrom when I'm done.

Cheers, Uwe.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Uwe Hermann  [060806 21:58]:
> I'll try to figure out what it does that flashrom does not, in order to
> be able to use flashrom; I'll post a patch for flashrom when I'm done.

It calls 16bit bios code. Tricky. You might want to link in x86emu to
get it working cleanly, or do some vm86 tricks that fail on amd64 boxes.
Check ASUSBIOS.PAS in UniFlash. Same thing in different exists for
AMIBIOS as well.

Stefan