diff --git a/utils/devbios/ChangeLog b/utils/devbios/ChangeLog index 979c0a9..3c8e565 100644 --- a/utils/devbios/ChangeLog +++ b/utils/devbios/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,23 @@ +NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! + +/dev/bios is obsolete and no longer under development. Please adapt all +changes to the "flashrom" utility of LinuxBIOS. This utility can be found +at LinuxBIOSv2/utils/flashrom in the LinuxBIOS v2 repository. LinuxBIOS +is available at http://www.linuxbios.org/ + +I'm also looking for volunteers to port all features available in /dev/bios +to flashrom so /dev/bios can be dropped from the OpenBIOS tree. These features +include + +- block information about flash chips +- block wise writing of flash chips +- lots of supported flash chips and vendors. + +If you have questions, contact Stefan Reinauer + +NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! + + ChangeLog for /dev/bios ** 2004/03/31 ******************************************************** diff --git a/utils/devbios/README.bios b/utils/devbios/README.bios index 63c6997..45bd9a8 100644 --- a/utils/devbios/README.bios +++ b/utils/devbios/README.bios @@ -1,3 +1,23 @@ +NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! + +/dev/bios is obsolete and no longer under development. Please adapt all +changes to the "flashrom" utility of LinuxBIOS. This utility can be found +at LinuxBIOSv2/utils/flashrom in the LinuxBIOS v2 repository. LinuxBIOS +is available at http://www.linuxbios.org/ + +I'm also looking for volunteers to port all features available in /dev/bios +to flashrom so /dev/bios can be dropped from the OpenBIOS tree. These features +include + +- block information about flash chips +- block wise writing of flash chips +- lots of supported flash chips and vendors. + +If you have questions, contact Stefan Reinauer + +NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! + + /dev/bios documentation 2002/02/19 Table of contents @@ -232,6 +252,5 @@ If you want to help this project, send me * any comments * any ideas - Stefan Reinauer