[LinuxBIOS] flashrom, uniflash.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Sep 1 01:22:40 CEST 2006


* Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> [060831 23:55]:
> Another important issue is that flashrom should support many, many chips
> and baords, as few people will be willing to buy expensive hardware just
> for flashing.

> There's Uniflash, but that has the problem of being Pascal+DOS,
> currently. I tried for a few minutes to build it with GNU Pascal or
> FreePascal, but that didn't work easily (needs more work, maybe).
> Has anybody else managed to build it for Linux?

Uniflash works so well because it does 16bit bios calls itself. I am not
sure we want to do this. Maybe we do? Maybe with x86emu? Ollie? Ron?

Stefan

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