[LinuxBIOS] DOS uniflash vs. linux flashrom : whats easier to modify ?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Quux <pawn2be.wild at yahoo.de> [070309 14:30]:
> I think I may be useful (tho not overly useful) to flash some stuff from 
> linuxbios into a PCI expansion BIOS during test phase.
> RTL just offers a binary flash tool for Atmel flash mem, which brand I 
> do not own.

This should not be too hard to do. 

You need to make sure
 * that the option rom space of the network card is mapped to a free
   space of physical memory.
 * to use that memory space instead of the "below 4G" area for flash
   detection.

That's about it. The first step will definitely be harder. Early
versions of Linux mapped all PCI roms into physical address space, so
back then this was an easy method. 

Patches welcome ;-)

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