On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:06:56PM +0200, Oscar Molin wrote: > Hi Peter > I said in an email to Corey about unbricking, that I think it might > be possible to use the recovery part of the bios, appending that > file from Intels own bios with a linuxbios. > I'm not 100% sure that works but it might. I forgot to forward that > message to the mailing list.
I recognize it, I think I'm just replying a few days late. > Intels bios structure [..] > If I can include these recvery files, and place the linuxbios in > the regular bios files (with intels header info to make their > flash-program accept it), I don't see a reason why it shouldn't > work. Could work, but reverse engineering the BIOS format may need quite an effort. > Intels flasher also has a function that checks validity of the > files before flashing, so if there is a checksum or something in > the header that has to match, I would be able to solve it or even > bruteforce it to make it accept my files instead. > The reason I'm looking at this way of handling things, and not just > soldering a socket the first thing I do, is: > 1) I'm lazy > 2) This is the way it has to be done if there is ever going to be > Intel OEM support, since their flasher is AFAIK the only one that > can flash there chips. flashrom already supports two Intel chips and I don't see why more couldn't be added? > Regular users can't be expected to solder bios chips. Certainly not. > Thanks for the offer about the socket, but I'm too far away so I'll > have to do it myself. All right. > If the working assembler code can be put in with the C code, and > then change it line by line until it stops working, you should be > able to pinpoint the problem right? > Maybe my thinking is flawed, I'm not a good programmer. Nope, it makes sense. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios