[flashrom] Realtek NIC (8169)

[Mark Brown]

Stefan,

thanks for the clarification. I'd like to try the patch, will take a
look at the patch in a few days - I have mostly rectangular versions
(newer chip) but some board with older square versions, those are in use
right now however.

On a seperate note - does anyone have pointers to the packaging of
BIOS images - e.g. how to spot the boot/pxe code in the bigger picture?

Mark


On 3/10/2012 5:15 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:24:33 -0500
> Mark Brown <mbrown at greenmountainservices.com> wrote:
> 
>> Wonder if there is a way to support the RTL8169 chipset, for SPI based
>> programming. Very common and inexpensive card.
> 
> we have an untested (probably outdated) patch for it:
> http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/2489/
> the problem is, that there are multiple versions of the chipset. the
> earlier revision(s?) have a square package and would support reading
> and writing to the flash (and eeprom) chip. the latter and by far more
> common version of the chipset does no longer support writing to the
> flash chip. if your card(s) have a square RTL8169 chip then i can
> update the patch for you to try.
> 
>>
>> Would be wonderful to support something like gPXE/iPXE PXE ROMs on those
>> NICs. The typical 128kbit SPI rom/eprom/prom variations are often ATMEL
>> or like. e.f. ATMEL518 93C64
> 
> please note that the chips with "93" in the name like above are eeproms
> which are not supported at all by flashrom (please see
> http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_chips to get a general
> idea what series of memory devices can (easily) be supported).
>