Russell Gower wrote:
>
> Hi my asus mainboard has just arrived.As this uses a plcc flash chip i
> intend on using a 512k flash chip. The problem being that the chip is
> soldered in place not socketed as i was lead to belive still i quite good
> with a fine iron so fitting a SMD socket shouldn't be be out of the question
> i may glue this on top of the existing chip and put a toggle switch on the
> CE line instant recovery mode! That shouldn't be to difficult but i need to
> find a A18 signal from some where on the board, as there is no ISA bus.
> Would the AD18 line on the PCI bus be any good it would need a latch at
> least but could this work. Else the only other way i can see is a nasty hack
> using say a printer port pin and a modified kernel loader.
>
> Also if i get past that bit what needs to be done to build the flash image.
> I've looked at the source code and even built the SIS howto, but the source
> tree is very confusing.
>
> Thanks
> Russell
Before you do anything, please download TIARA image (256KB) form UTC's
ftp
site. Use the flash rom programming program on LinuxBIOS CVS to flash
the image. This will be a good exercise for you.
Ollie
