[LinuxBIOS] flash_rom on Nvidia CK804

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Apr 13 18:03:50 CEST 2006


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> 
>>* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> [060412 06:17]:
>>
>>>Lu, Yinghai wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>These should be DMI info ....,
>>>
>>>The later section (2.2 kb) really are DMI info.
>>>
>>>But I strongly doubt that the missing 128 kb in the middle are
>>>all DMI info. Especially the fact that here flash_rom reads
>>>a consecutive block of 0xff while the vendor BIOS image has
>>>real contents seems the wrong way. If it were DMI info, the
>>>vendor BIOS image should have the 0xff and not flash_rom.
>>
>>What does that content look like?
> 
> Looks like valid x86 instructions.

I tested with awdflash and the readout of awdflash does not exhibit
this bug. Any idea how to fix it in flash_rom?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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