Vincent Legoll schrieb:
>
> Are you really working on porting linuxbios to asustek's A7V motherboard ?
I am trying to do so, but i got stuck at the stage of memory
initialisation due to lack of specs about the VIA VT8363 chip :-(
> I will give a try with flshing linuxbios when
> I have free time to do so, and if I'm sure I can restore an original asus
> bios (I don't want to buy a new mobo!)
For this purpose, i did a rather simple "daugtherboard" that
allows you to have both flashes in parallel (selectable
by a switch). Schematic can be downloaded here:
wget -c
http://www.rcs.ei.tum.de/~kuhn/linuxbios/flashextender/schematics.pdf
This "Flash Extender" can be mounted with 8 x 512 KByte Flashes (4
MByte).
As it isn�t simple to get write access to the flash, i reverse
enigeneered
the Award BIOS-Flash hook and did a simple flasher tool for the
extender.
Since i am too lacy to put the stuff on a web site, you can get the
flasher
on request :-)
> Just a little question, how much times can a flash chip be written ?
AFAIK 10.000 to 100.000 times, depending on the manufacturer.
AFAIR, M-Systems tell something about 1.000.000 times, but this
IMHO means "write accesses" to the flashdisk, where write accesses
to the same file are not always done to the same block.
Bernhard
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