[OpenBIOS] where I'm at with the 440gx and reading nvram

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com
Mon Jan 24 20:10:51 CET 2000


"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote:
> 
> 440gx agpset, page 4-2 has a nice map of the memory. 4-4 shows the
> extended bios at 4GB-2M. When I do this:
>  unsigned long l = 0xffe00000;
>   unsigned long flashsize = 0x200000;
>   void *v;
>   v = ioremap_nocache (l, flashsize);
>   if (! v) {
>         printk("ioremap failed\n");
>         return;
>   }
> 
> And I probe that memory I only read 0xff. Bad. It's acting like I'm
> getting all 1's due to some control chip rejecting the memory cycle. I'd
> be happier with a trap ...

ioremap is a linux kernel function.  are you using readb() and writeb()
to access the token (not pointer!) returned from ioremap_nocache?

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