Open bios dev/bios bug report

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Thu Apr 22 11:02:01 CEST 2004


On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:42:48PM +0200, Mathieu Deschamps wrote:
> > 
> > > I want to make /dev/bios work because LinuxBIOS flash utils just
> > > write whereas /dev/bios is IMO a elegant way to read/write/>? to
> > > many bios.
> > 
> > If you're going to do that why not just use MTD?
> > If it works it is pretty ideal.
> 
> short answer: True this is the final goal.
> 
> other answer: This because of I gave myself several milestone before
> getting a LinuxBios booting my littlish kernel on DOC for embedded
> station.

MTD is for all Memory Technology Devices - not just DOC.

See http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ and then enable it in your
nearest kernel. :)


//Peter



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