[flashrom] [PROPOSAL] support for NIC RTL8139 onboard flashing

[Andrew Morgan]

I would be very interested in this too. I have a few similar 28-pin boot 
ROM socketed cards spare and a device I'd like to re-program which uses 
28 pin ROM chips.
If there's a problem with the write enable pin, can this be worked 
around with another DIL holder with the correct pin bent, and a wire to 
connect that pin to the correct voltage?

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Andrew.




On 16/05/2010 14:01, Guenter wrote:
> Hi all,
> a lot of Realtek RTL8139 NICs have a DIL-32 bootrom socket, and it is 
> possible from DOS to flash PXE bootcode directly onboard provided you 
> use ATMEL AT29C512 or AT29C010A flashs; here's the download of the 
> Realtek flash program (see DOS section):
> http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=6&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false 
>
> unfortunately Realtek's flash utility only supports ATMEL flashs, and 
> even more worse is the trap that you can only flash the chip if it is 
> detected by the BIOS - if you just insert an empty chip then it didnt 
> work for me; the chip needs at least the 55AA code at the beginning so 
> that its memory is mapped into adapter space by the MB BIOS.
> Do you think that it is possible to add support for flashing these 
> cards (omst likely the RTL8169 GB NICs work same) to flashrom?