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UNIFLASH -pcior
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:38 am
by siegler
I'm trying to flash a modem with uniflash v1.28. The bios is supported (Atmel AT49F002T), but the card doesn't get recognized so it can't be flashed. I tried manually specifying the location with something like -pcior 0 9 0, but that doesn't work either. I see in the BUG section that
PCI Option ROM Flashing (-pcior parameter) doesn't work on many cards
so is the modem card the problem here?
I'd be interested to hear the details of *why* -pcior doesn't necessarily work for many cards.
Thanks!
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:52 am
by Rainbow
What? Modem with a BIOS? Modems do not have BIOS.
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 10:41 am
by ajzchips
erg... Rainbow... I have tons of modems with their own firmware, especially when they're DSP modems.
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 11:49 am
by Rainbow
Firmware is not BIOS! BIOS is code that's executed by system CPU while firmware is code that's executed by the device (DSP on the modem). So the (Flash/EE/E/P)ROM on the modem is not PCI Expansion ROM (can't be memory mapped).
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:33 pm
by siegler
Rainbow wrote:Firmware is not BIOS! BIOS is code that's executed by system CPU while firmware is code that's executed by the device (DSP on the modem). So the (Flash/EE/E/P)ROM on the modem is not PCI Expansion ROM (can't be memory mapped).
Makes some sense. The modem flash utilities do usually run under Win32 rather than from a bootdisk. Would Uniflash be helpful in creating such a utility? Is there any project out there that has does any work on such a program? It would certainly be useful.
Thanks fo rthe reply.
