[flashrom] [PROPOSAL] support for NIC RTL8139 onboard flashing

Guenter lists at gknw.net
Sun May 16 15:01:03 CEST 2010


Hi all,
a lot of Realtek RTL8139 NICs have a DIL-32 bootrom socket, and it is 
possible from DOS to flash PXE bootcode directly onboard provided you 
use ATMEL AT29C512 or AT29C010A flashs; here's the download of the 
Realtek flash program (see DOS section):
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=6&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
unfortunately Realtek's flash utility only supports ATMEL flashs, and 
even more worse is the trap that you can only flash the chip if it is 
detected by the BIOS - if you just insert an empty chip then it didnt 
work for me; the chip needs at least the 55AA code at the beginning so 
that its memory is mapped into adapter space by the MB BIOS.
Do you think that it is possible to add support for flashing these cards 
(omst likely the RTL8169 GB NICs work same) to flashrom?

Günter.






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