EPIA Linuxbios strangeness

[ron minnich]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> As an aside, I found a Winbond w49f002u chip and decided to back up the
> original EPIA BIOS to it.  I had to remove the print statements from the
> flash_and_burn w49f002u driver, turn off the chip erase, and program it
> repeatedly before it verified correctly!  Apparently that chip is very
> timing sensitive!  Aside from that issue, the Winbond chip works fine
> on the EPIA.

this seems to be a generic flash programming issue, timing is tricky even 
on parts with clocks.

ron