Intel 82802

Intel 82802

[Jim_Ravan]

All,

I'm a newbie, so forgive me ahead of time. I looked back about a year and a half
in the archives but could find no mention of the Intel 82802 MTH boot flash/RNG.
Is this device supported? Actually I should say "these devices" since the part
is available in 512KB and 1MB configurations.

Once I get my IBM PC motherboard booted using perhaps a (new) version of
Linux/BIOS, I would like to use MTD to update the flash under program control.
The overall idea is to allow a new Linux kernel to be flashed at will.

regards,
-jim

Re: Intel 82802

[Eric W. Biederman]

Jim_Ravan@avid.com writes:

> All,
> 
> I'm a newbie, so forgive me ahead of time. I looked back about a year and a half
> 
> in the archives but could find no mention of the Intel 82802 MTH boot flash/RNG.

I looked at these devices a while ago an they don't look too hard to
support.  Though last time I looked at the code they weren't
supported.  They are simple like most flash devices.  I haven't double
checked but they may support the standard intel flash command set from
the software side, in which all that is needed is to write a mapping driver.

> > Is this device supported? Actually I should say "these devices" since the part
> is available in 512KB and 1MB configurations.
> 
> Once I get my IBM PC motherboard booted using perhaps a (new) version of
> Linux/BIOS, I would like to use MTD to update the flash under program control.
> The overall idea is to allow a new Linux kernel to be flashed at will.

Eric