[LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions
Ronald G. Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed May 18 00:04:25 CEST 2005
On Tue, 17 May 2005, YhLu wrote:
> don't need,
> 1. good hw design should use one serial EEPROM to store MAC address, So when
> flash the BIOS, the EEPROM is still there.
yes, but there were some sis-630 based cards several years ago that stored
MAC in FLASH and CMOS.
SO to upgrade FLASH:
- make sure address is in cmos
- write flash
- write MAC back to flash.
There are some stupid designs out there.
ron
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