[LinuxBIOS] RD1 BIOS Savior [was Re: No known linux compatable BIOS programmer ?]

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Mon Jun 4 17:39:37 CEST 2007


On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:29:08PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Sorry to jump in a bit late here, but for parallel flash, what
> about using a NIC with a boot ROM socket?  I've used that for both
> PLCC32 and DIP32 parts.

You mean for salvaging flash parts? They're usually small. 128kb.

The flash chip on those cards isn't reachable until after PCI init
has set an address for it so it's not that handy for booting.

Sorry - what are you suggesting? :)


//Peter




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