Using DATA I/O to burn flash

[Steven James]

Greetings,

Since the ELF header is interpreted by LinuxBIOS, it should be flashed as
binary so it is retained.

G'day,
sjames


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On Tue, 11 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * Jay Miller <jmiller at actuality-systems.com> [040511 13:55]:
> > We've got a Data I/O machine and I would like to use it to burn my
> > linuxbios.rom image to flash.
> >
> > What format is this image?  If I'm not mistaken it's ELF, but the DATA
> > I/O doesn't have a listing for ELF files.  Has anyone used this type of
> > burner to flash their BIOS chips?
>
> Only the payload is ELF. That is the code that is executed after
> hardware setup is done. This allows easy development of applications on
> top of LinuxBIOS.
>
> The LinuxBIOS image itself is just a raw 1:1 image of what needs to be
> burned to the flash chip. No headers, no bells, no whistles.
>
> Stefan
>
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