On 9/23/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19.09.2007 07:34, Darmawan Salihun wrote: > > I've bought an AMD690G system for further development. Nonetheless, > there's > > a problem with the datasheets. > > The SB600 datasheet from AMD documents informs nothing about the PCI > > registers pertaining to "flash enable". > > Since AMD has released detailed datasheets for a few ATI graphics cards > in the last few days, I expect detailed SB600 datasheets may be on the > horizon as well if we ask nicely. > > @AMD: Is there any information missing from the public SB600 data sheets? > > However, it is quite possible that SB600 has no flash enable and this is > entirely managed by GPIOs on the SuperIO. >
I see. > The only solution is to reverse-engineer a working solution, i.e. Award > > Winflash to find out about it because it > > supports the platform. I need this because I need to test my further > > Winflashrom code in my testbed prior to > > releasing it. Unless someone would donate a motherboard with an already > > supported chipset ;-). > > > > My question is, how can I provide you guys with a clean source code that > > would be legal? > > I have quite some experience with clean room reverse engineering. Back > then, it was the Nvidia network driver where we (Andrew de Quincey and > me) wrote a hardware data sheet from the binary driver and someone else > implemented forcedeth just by looking at the data sheet we had written. > > > Should I be producing a document and someone else here code it for me > and > > others? > > Generally, if you intend to work on the code later on or work on > winflashrom at all, you should make sure somebody else does the > reversing and writes the data sheet. That way, you are free to implement > a clean solution from the data sheet. > I see. So, I should wait for someone else who would like to do that for the rest of us here because actually I am more to writing code for winflashrom than the reverse engineering. ( even if I'd love to reverse it myself :-) -> we should stick to the rules ) > ( I think this is what "clean room reverse engineering", right?) > > Yes, but the recommendations above apply. Thank you very much for the insight ;-) Regards, Darmawan Salihun -------------------------------------------------------------------- -= Human knowledge belongs to the world =-
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