[LinuxBIOS] IOSS Product Order / RD1-PMC4 for which board ?

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Wed Apr 4 00:30:01 CEST 2007


On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:25:43AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:03:42PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:59:09PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > The RD1-PMC4 has a 4Mbit LPC flash chip, the Pm49FL004. This
> > > should work just fine on any board that wants LPC flash.
> [..]
> > > Note by work I mean CPU able to read from flash.
> > 
> > Yeah - note that I can't even get it to do that on the gigabyte
> > m57sli-s4.
> 
> That's bad. :( You flashed it on another board, verified OK but
> doesn't boot? Ouch.

Well, basically the m57sli refuses to see the chip built into the bios
savior.  I just flashed an image into another rom chip, and use that to boot
LB (keeping my backup original rom chip). I can't boot the m57sli from the
pm49fl004 chip in the biossavior, nor can flashrom see it when the switch is
set to RD1 instead of ORG.

The biossavior makes hot swapping a lot easier though, even if it does not
work as intended.

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator




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