Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Feb 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Grumble, Grumble. This kind of thing really needs to be in an mtd map driver. > > > Then you could have everything compiled into the kernel.... > > Grumble, Grumble. > > yeah but ... the mtd map driver has no idea what motherboard your on. > There's no "motherboard ID" register. In the general case there's no way a > kernel can figure out how to enable FLASH writes, since it can't figure > out the motherboard. It's truly awful. PCs suck.
Actually there is a dmi BIOS table that on machines in the last 3 or 4 years reliably reports the mothberboard name. I hadn't thought of that but that is definentily information we can use. Eric
