[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] 440bx raminit changes

Ceri Coburn ceri.coburn at googlemail.com
Fri May 25 13:19:56 CEST 2007


Corey Osgood wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:23 +0100, Ceri Coburn wrote:
>> Although I have a nice 
>> Willem writer on the way :), so I should be able to test my patches with 
>> real hardware shortly.
> 
> Do you have a Windows 98 box to run it on? I haven't been able to get
> mine to work on linux (with wine), vista, or xp, with the normal
> software. I haven't actually tried it on 98se, but from what I
> understand that's what it was designed to work with. 

Yup, I have it working in XP.  Although I have the True USB version from 
mcumall, so I imagine the drivers for the LPT port version are somewhat 
different.




You also can always
> hotswap the flash chips, ie boot up with the normal bios, then swap a
> different chip in, and test with that. After you're done, you just swap
> the old one back in, and repeat.

Didn't fancy that to be honest.  Hopefully the Willem way, development 
should be quicker.



> 
> -Corey
> 
> 





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