[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS/flashrom on Asus P2B

Sam Brightman samghost at mpx.net
Mon Aug 7 18:43:29 CEST 2006


Uwe Hermann wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 07:02:30PM +0200, Sam Brightman wrote:
>> Anyway, here is the output: 
> 
> I have a similar problem (same output) with flashrom. Can you try
> Uniflash (uniflash.org) and report whether it works?

I was trying to avoid Uniflash because it seemed dated and DOS-ish. 
Granted I could probably get FreeDOS, but I've also gradually broken all 
my floppy drives over the years...

 From what I can tell Uniflash, OpenBIOS and LinuxBIOSv1 have all been 
abandoned to a greater or lesser extent, yet the knowledge from them 
hasn't been used anywhere else? Is LinuxBIOSv2 a from-scratch effort? I 
think the chip used in this board was supported by /dev/bios, but I'm a 
bit unsure as to the state/stability of that given the non-activity on 
OpenBIOS.

Is this board fundamentally different from P2B-L? I should probably also 
mention that we have some pretty groovy-looking equipment at work that I 
could possibly use if basic reverse engineering is required. Only 
problem being my lack of hardware knowledge - there's something that 
looks like an oscilloscope but it says "impedance analyser" and I need 
to be told what to do with such equipment.

-- 
sam brightman




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