Hi, the submission deadline is approaching fast and maybe some people are still not sure what project idea to pick. You surely have read the list of projects by now. http://linuxbios.org/GSoC One more idea (not yet in the wiki) is mentioned in the mail quoted below:
On 22.03.2007 15:35, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 22.03.2007 15:24, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >> > * Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070322 15:22]: >>> >> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:16:42 +0100 >>> >> Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >> >>>> >>> * Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070322 15:08]: >>>>> >>>> This is a structure found in every award bios image >>>> >>> A similar structure is found in ASUS branden bioses. Look at >>>> >>> ASUSBIOS.PAS in uniflash >>> >> Feature of which could be possibly incorporated into flashrom, in order >>> >> not to have stuck system while detecting flash-chip (on ASUS boards). >> > >> > Yes. This should work. The one disadvantage is that it stops working as >> > soon as you flashed linuxbios for the first time, because it does not >> > provide that information. >> > >> > (Maybe it should, btw, when we want to save configuration stuff in a >> > flash block?) > > Why not use an extra utility for this (detect_flash_enable_strategy)? > > # ./detect_flash_enable_strategy > Performing PCI and SuperIO config space dump 1... > Calling Flash enable hooks in proprietary BIOS.... > Performing PCI and SuperIO config space dump 2... > Diffing dumps... > PCI config space byte 0x13 of device 00:1e.0 changed from 0x20 to 0x30 > Please mail the above information with lspci -nv and a description > of your mainboard to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you implement a utility which automatically determines the flash enable strategy for a mainboard by analyzing the vendor BIOS and calling the flash enable hooks in the proprietary BIOS with lrmi or another vm86 wrapper, you have a really good project idea and good chances. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
