[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ST <st at iss.tu-darmstadt.de> [070328 00:36]:
> Well the result in pretty raw format right now.
> Bios Chip is a:
> PMC
> 0621
> Pm49FLOO4T-33JCE
> If someone can enlighten me or has pointers to a datasheet, that would be 
> nice.
 
http://www.chingistek.com/resource_center/docs/Pm49FL002-004%20V1.8.pdf

> If the bios failure should be detected this only works reliably with an 
> watchdog which switches the bios on failure. 

Many of them fake and do a software process. Doesn't hurt as long as
the first chip always stays intact. But it's kind of useless for
linuxbios.

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