Universal Flashing tool
Alexander Amelkin
spirit at reactor.ru
Thu Mar 13 05:19:00 CET 2003
Hello guys!
Yesterday I spent the day fighting the flash_rom on my pcchips
m787cl+ board (SiS630). It just won't work. It mmaps correctly and I
can read the BIOS (i created a flash_save tool based on the
flash_rom.c code), but the chip identification just doesn't work. My
assumption is that it doesn't disable Shadow memory before sending
the SoftID sequence to the flash. Btw, the 'flash_and_burn' thing
simply doesn't compile complaining on the absence of the 'pci/pci.h'
file. So I use flash_rom.c from the 'sis630' directory.
But that was just a preface. What I was going to say here is after I
gave up fighting with the flash_rom.c, I started searching the
Internet for universal flash writers. And you know what? I found a
marvelous tool - Uniflash! It can flash almost any flash part on
almost any motherboard with any file you say. The tool is written in
Pascal for DOS and is open source. I think those of you here who
are into the development of the flash_rom.c can use that source to
make flash_rom.c way more compatible than it is now.
For now I prefer using Uniflash from DOS. It made my m787cl+ boot
LinixBIOS in less than a minute after I spent the day fighting the
flash_rom.c :))))
Here is the link:
http://www.krizovakomunikacia.sk/rainbow/programs.html#UniFlash
With best regards,
Alexander mailto:spirit at reactor.ru
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