[LinuxBIOS] Intel 440bx

[Uwe Hermann]

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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:26:12PM -0800, roger wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 19:31 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:53:01AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
> > > roger wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:00 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I've had the serial cable setup a couple years ago & working but was
> > > > having problems flashing any builds to my bios chips as it seemed, at
> > > > the time, Intel had masked the BIOS to prevent flashing unless it was
> > > > first unmasked.  (Unknown if the current flash script in V2 works and/or
> > > > MTD finds the masked BIOS chip on my Tyan 1832DL or 440BX boards.)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I think I'm seeing the same thing, flashrom doesn't seem to be able to
> > > see the BIOS chip (although it does find the northbridge correctly). So
> > > I'm using a windows 98se boot floppy without the ramdisk, with dos-mode
> > > USB drivers, award's aflash, and a usb flash drive that I'm using to
> > > transfer built bios' with. I'd almost say it works better than flashrom,
> > > since I don't need to boot a full linux system to flash, but that's just
> > > my opinion (and this situation).
> > 
> > I'd like to fix flashrom if possible. You probably need to add some
> > board-specific code to util/flashrom/flash_enable.c, see for example:
> > http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/browser/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/flash_enable.c#L472
> > 
> > FWIW, I'm using my Gigabyte GA-6BXC board (440BX, PIIX4) to flash
> > LinuxBIOS images, and it works just fine.
> > 
> > 
> > Uwe.
> 
> 
> Right... Intel written all over my board except for the name Tyan
> 
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
> bridge (rev 03)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
> bridge (rev 03)
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
> 01)
> 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
> 01)
> 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
 
That looks like it should work. If it doesn't it's quite probably a
mainboard-specific issue.
 
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> Roger
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> Thu Mar 1 15:24:41 PST 2007
 

Uwe.
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