3 Oct
2001
3 Oct
'01
4:59 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Trevor Warren wrote:
i am using a i810 board with Award Bios. Part of the project on Linux is that i have to make direct acess to a memory location f000:cdcd part of the flash bios and grep fpr a string in the bios.
First off, that address is a real mode address (segment:offset). In protected mode, addresses are more than that, 32 or 64 bits (or 20 if you use an 8088).
Also, I think that you have to set up a special device in your proc file system to access your flash ram. Check in make menuconfig.
Philip
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