On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 01:05:03 +0100, Michael Karcher <[email protected]> wrote: > Add support for flashing using CD/DVD drives with mediatek chipsets. > > As the driver is now, it only supports parallel ATA drives with parallel > flash chips. The kind of drive access needed is not possible through IDE > drivers in the OS, flashrom has to access the IDE port directly. This will > interfere with OS drivers for the drive, so you better make sure that > the OS does not access the drive (or another drive on the same PATA > channel) > during the flash process. > > On recent linux kernels (with libata), the invocation > "-p mediatek_pata:devname=sr0" should work. It is supposed to forcibly > unregister all drives on the IDE channel sr0 is on (you better don't have > a file system mounted on a hard drive on the same channel), perform the > flash job, and, if the drive successfully reboots, re-add all detectable > IDE devices on that channel. > > This patch is known to lack a man page section and violate the flashrom > coding style in some places - I send it out to catch some early reviews > on it. > This is really cool :-) It also opens the door to another pata flasher:
http://www.loet.de/flasher_en.html Great work! -- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
