[LinuxBIOS] flashrom SST49LF080A patch

[Ronald G Minnich]

Roman Kononov wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
it's something like 20 chars per byte write, so for 1 MB part, you're 
talking 20 M chars. It will take 20 minutes to print at 9600.

I did this once on a 1024-node cluster. it was really bad. 1 billion chars.

ron