flashing ROMs from protected mode

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maman
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AFAIK, uniflash works under realmode right ? I've used award's winflash for quite sometime which is running from within protected mode windows. I'm planning to built a ROM flashing tool from Protected Mode too, but running from Linux (or is there already available :?: ), I need some info on what I need to learn to do this ? my main concern is about expansion ROM flasher like the uniflash -PCIOR . Thx
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Maybe you will find some useful information here.
rbfowler9
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Doesn't UF use "flat-realmode" (aka "UnRealmode")? I must have read it somewhere.
Porting it to PM wouldn't be such a hassle then, since memor access would be quite similar. You'd just have to go thru all realmode interrupt calls and create RM callbacks for them...

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rbfowler9 wrote:Doesn't UF use "flat-realmode" (aka "UnRealmode")? I must have read it somewhere.
Yes, that's true.
The flat real mode is easy to use (once someone else programmed all the basic things :lol: )
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