could this be of any halp for linuxbios project ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Reinauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:37 AM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] /dev/bios 0.3.1 released
> Dear hackers,
>
> weren't you ever frustrated about the fact that updating your hardware's
> flash firmware needs proprietary closed source software installed?
> There's a solution to this problem: a kernel driver for different kinds
> of (Flash)BIOSs that are available in today's x86 or Alpha AXP hardware.
>
> It's /dev/bios - and the latest version 0.3.1 was released recently.
>
> There are well known BIOSs for
>
> * System BIOS (resides at 0xe0000)
> * graphics hardware (e.g. VGA-adapters at 0xc0000)
> * SCSI host adapters
> * networking interfaces with 'BOOT ROM'
> * ...
>
> While in former times these BIOSs were implemented by using ROM or EPROM
> (both can't be updated without opening your computer) today's PC hardware
> is normally delivered with so called FLASH ROMs. These can simply be
updated
> by software. This driver has the approach to make Linux read and write
flash
> roms.
>
> What's new in 0.3.1?
>
> * compiles and works with Linux kernel 2.4
> * rewrote flash chip probing
> * always use ioremap now
> * flash chips above 128k should work transparent
> * Support for newer VIA chipsets
>
> Devbios can be downloaded from http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~stepan/bios/
>
> Please be sure to READ the README ;-) As long as you load the module
without
> special parameters, it's in readonly mode and can't mess up your system,
so
> please don't hesitate to try it out and mail me any test results
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Reinauer, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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