flashing the bios

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Nathanael Noblet wrote:

> Ok, so again here I am working on a sis 530 based board. I'd like to 
> copy the bios to disk as a precaution, I would also like to flash 
> linuxbios to the flash chip. I also need to know how to get the kernel 
> in the right place on the DoC. Are there any docs on how to do that? I 
> have looked at the flash_and_burn utils, which work only for the 
> 630/950 sis stuff. Where do I go from now?

if you are using doc, use MTD. It has worked well for DoC. 

use dumpdevmem to save your current flash to disk. 

you can fix flash_rom to burn flash on the 550, I doubt there is much 
difference.

ron