[LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

Harald Gutmann harald.gutmann at gmx.net
Sat Oct 13 17:39:51 CEST 2007


Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2007 17:17:15 schrieb Peter Stuge:
> Excellent job! The soldering looks great - very impressive if this
> was the first time you soldered electronics. :)

no, it wasn't the first time that i soldered, but i don't often solder.

> Also great to have confirmation that the hardware hack works!

according to the flashrom probing output, it works.
also the response of the computer on trying to boot with the emtpy bios-chip 
is a good sign, that it works how it should.

> Thank you very much.

no prob.

> > after booting the machine, i made a svn co of the linuxbios
> > flashrom util, compiled it and had a look if it will work.
>
> I'm not sure if flashrom actually works with the SPI chips yet.
>
> Carl-Daniel was working on it but I don't remember what the status
> is.

according to Uwe Hermann the write function in current svn version is a NULL 
function, and not implemented right now.
i've to less knowledge in programming and c, to implement that function, but 
if testers were needed, i'll do it, because i can switch back to the original 
bios chip easily.

> //Peter






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