Open bios dev/bios bug report

Stefan Reinauer stepan at openbios.org
Fri Apr 23 05:13:01 CEST 2004


* Mathieu Deschamps <mdeschamps at mangrove-systems.com> [040423 09:20]:
> 	oh I know this quite well. I think I didn't made myself clear enough.
> Dev/bios opens or intents to open all the flash device of  your
> hardware (that's explains read/write/>? MANY bios) , but I wondering if
> it could opens a DOC, since it's a IDE bus Flash device. 

No, /dev/bios can't do DOC. Only directly mapped chips (system bios, and
in theory pci option roms) can be accessed. No DOC, no CF. You have to
go MTD for those.

   Stefan




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