[LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed May 18 00:04:25 CEST 2005



On Tue, 17 May 2005, YhLu wrote:

> don't need, 
> 1. good hw design should use one serial EEPROM to store MAC address, So when
> flash the BIOS, the EEPROM is still there.

yes, but there were some sis-630 based cards several years ago that stored 
MAC in FLASH and CMOS. 

SO to upgrade FLASH:
- make sure address is in cmos
- write flash
- write MAC back to flash. 


There are some stupid designs out there. 

ron




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