[LinuxBIOS] flashrom SST49LF080A patch

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Oct 3 00:36:59 CEST 2006


* Roman Kononov <kononov195-lbl at yahoo.com> [061003 00:24]:
> On 10/02/2006 03:38 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > putting this in will make it impossible to update the bios using a
> > serial line. :-(
> 
> Cannot get it. Why?

because you are trying to output 18874368 characters during a single
flash. 

1) it will mess up your timing during the write process.
2) if you are on a 9600 baud line, writing the flash 1* will 
   require 262 minutes.

;-)

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