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benmcollins 02-11-2012 03:40 PM

Programming EEPROM from Linux
 
Hello,

The company I work for is engineering a system that makes use of the DisplayLink. It's non-x86, so can't boot windows. The DL-125 is on the PCB, so it can't be connected to anything else.

We have a 128k EEPROM attached to it. None of the open source drivers (libdlo, udlfb, etc) have EEPROM programming in it.

Also, I can't seem to find any generic firmware to load into it.

So, I would like to know if the manufacturing tools are available for Linux, and if so, where to get them.

benmcollins 02-11-2012 05:16 PM

Update...
 
I figured out that our extranet account allows building the firmware (as soon as we get a PID assigned).

I'm still wondering about how to program it, since none of the tools available for download will work for us (Linux-only non-x86 environment with built-in DL-125 chip).

I'm looking for pointers to libdlo or other source patches that allow writing to the EEPROM via the I2C endpoint.

Thanks

Wim 02-16-2012 01:29 PM

The programming tools, only available with an NDA with DisplayLink, are Windows only. There is no Linux tool available to program the firmware into the EEPROM.

You will need a Windows system to program the firmware.

Wim

JLundberg 02-22-2013 05:32 PM

Hello,

How would I go about getting an NDA? My system seems to work best on firmware v119 or 119. The v105 or even the v120 firmware is giving me problems.

I would love to be able to flash the screens I get in to v118

John

frief 03-27-2013 08:08 AM

coreboot flashrom
 
Probably flashrom http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom would be a good starting point.
(Programming of mainboard BIOS, flashing on some network/graphics/raid cards on devices themselves)

Eventually ask on the coreboot mailinglist?

frief 08-15-2013 10:04 PM

flashrom now has its own website http://www.flashrom.org/.

As of this writing the claim is that flashrom
"Supports more than 380 flash chips, 260 chipsets, 450 mainboards, 50 PCI devices, 12 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers."

So the infrastructure is there.


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