[LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions

[YhLu]

In CMOS? unbelievable. 
Factory personal and service guys will keep kicking the design engineer and
blaming their design.

YH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich at lanl.gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:04 PM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: Stephen.Kimball at bench.com; linuxbios at openbios.org
> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions
> 
> 
> 
> 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
>