Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:01:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@dingo.cdrom.com> To: randal@comtest.com Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embeded applications? Message-ID: <199805230001.RAA03419@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 15:00:31 -1000." <199805230042.OAA07791@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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> On 22 May 98 at 16:33, Mike Smith wrote: > > > You're right, discopy won't do the job. It's sounding like you're > > going to have to write your own tool for this job. > > > > Are you in a position to write trivial real-mode DOS utilities? > > Yes, I suppose I could write my own. Maybe I could take fdimage or rawrite > source and modify them? That would be the fastest technique, yes. > > > However, Mesa > > > Electronics wrote their own BIOS support for them. I need to check with them > > > if they are willing to give out the specs for accessing the flash chips > > > directly. > > > > If not, it may be possible to go the BIOS route. > > This sounds interesting how would this work? What would be required? You would have to run 3.0 on the system. You would then need to write a small driver which used the kernel's support for real-mode BIOS calls to call the flash BIOS code. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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