[LinuxBIOS] flashrom with SST49FL080A

Anton anton.borisov at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 21:51:00 CEST 2007


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:46:26 -0700
"Nicholas Veeser" <nveeser at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I have what I thought was an 8MB flash device on my motherboard.  (Tyan
> s2895)
> with this I am using the RD1-LPC8 as a backup.
> 
> Well for my first test I read the flash from the original ROM.
> Flipped the switch on the RD1 and wrote it back.
> This did not seem to work.
> 
> Looking at the files that I created from flashrom, it seems that flashrom is
> only reading 1024k of the device and storing that in a file.
> 
> Is that on purpose?  Why is the file not 8MB?

	This is correct. 8MB should be read as 8MBit = 1Mb.




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