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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Surjan Singh <surj@surj.net>
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:40:20 +0000
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Subject: Re: Using MTD to flash mainboard BIOS
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On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 13:33 +0000, Surjan Singh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an EPIA 5000 mainboard
> (http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_mini_itx_spec.jsp?motherboardId=21), which uses a SST39SF020A-70-4C-NH BIOS chip.
> 
> Is it possible to flash this chip using MTD? If so, can someone offer
> some pointers?

Yes, probably -- you need to know how to enable the WE# and write-enable
lines to the flash chip, which are often hidden deeply in chipset magic.
See the other BIOS map drivers, e.g. ichxrom.c and l440gx.c, for
examples.

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dwmw2