Is 440BX ported to Linuxbios v2?

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Jan 14 07:11:01 CET 2005


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:

> I'm assuming that the flash_rom from V2 is the latest and I should use
> that over whats in V1?

yes. 

> In this case I _am_ the factory BIOS. *grin*

good!

> I've not a clue how to use the mtd stuff.  I briefly looked at it but
> found no good docuementation on trying to use that stuff with an
> 29F040b so I moved on.

The mtd drivers are complex but they cover a lot of corner cases flash_rom
does not (16-bit flash bus, etc). We have not hit those cases yet, so we
can use either flash_rom or mtd.

I know Eric uses MTD heavily so he and LNXI have a lot of expertise in 
this area. 

ron



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