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

[Jörg Fischer]

Hi,
Jörg Fischer schrieb:

> here is the patch for RTL1839 based NICs.

And here is the second version, which works. It should be applied to
a clean svn, without my first patch.

> Still got some problems:
>  * Those Nics can have a wide varity of PCI (Vendor) IDs.

.. which are not yet in the code.

>  * Code is instable, "erase" fails but "read" reads only FFs.

Fixed. Must set nCS to "1" after reading a byte...

> It is disabled by default in the Makefile.

And another point: I read somewhere that RTL8139D and later Chips may
not have Flash Writing capability anymore. Read: no newer Cards :-(

Regards,
Jörg Fischer


Signed-off-by: Joerg Fischer <turboj at gmx.de>


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