Re: Using DATA I/O to burn flash

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Jay Miller  [040511 13:55]:
> We've got a Data I/O machine and I would like to use it to burn my
> linuxbios.rom image to flash.
>
> What format is this image?  If I'm not mistaken it's ELF, but the DATA
> I/O doesn't have a listing for ELF files.  Has anyone used this type of
> burner to flash their BIOS chips?

Only the payload is ELF. That is the code that is executed after
hardware setup is done. This allows easy development of applications on
top of LinuxBIOS.

The LinuxBIOS image itself is just a raw 1:1 image of what needs to be
burned to the flash chip. No headers, no bells, no whistles.

Stefan

Using DATA I/O to burn flash

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:10:56PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > What format is this image?
>
> The LinuxBIOS image itself is just a raw 1:1 image of what needs
> to be burned to the flash chip. No headers, no bells, no whistles.

Often called "binary" in the programming software I've seen.

//Peter

Using DATA I/O to burn flash

[Steven James]

Greetings,

Since the ELF header is interpreted by LinuxBIOS, it should be flashed as
binary so it is retained.

G'day,
sjames

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On Tue, 11 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Jay Miller  [040511 13:55]:
> > We've got a Data I/O machine and I would like to use it to burn my
> > linuxbios.rom image to flash.
> >
> > What format is this image?  If I'm not mistaken it's ELF, but the DATA
> > I/O doesn't have a listing for ELF files.  Has anyone used this type of
> > burner to flash their BIOS chips?
>
> Only the payload is ELF. That is the code that is executed after
> hardware setup is done. This allows easy development of applications on
> top of LinuxBIOS.
>
> The LinuxBIOS image itself is just a raw 1:1 image of what needs to be
> burned to the flash chip. No headers, no bells, no whistles.
>
> Stefan
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