home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   RBERRYPI      Support for the Raspberry Pi device      21,939 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 20,772 of 21,939   
   Theo to bp@www.zefox.net   
   Re: Rpi-eeprom update on Pi2 ?   
   19 Sep 24 17:18:31   
   
   INTL 3:770/1 3:770/3   
   REPLYADDR theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk   
   REPLYTO 3:770/3.0 UUCP   
   MSGID:  64642317   
   REPLY:  d25eebb2   
   PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
   bp@www.zefox.net wrote:   
   > yeti  wrote:   
   > > The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   > >   
   > >> Some of the things you might plug in might have eeprom.   
   > >>   
   > >> I think its like the old days of having PC cards with bios extensions   
   > >   
   > > Those are a different thing.   
   > >   
   > > See ...    
   >   
   > A quick (and somewhat uncomprehending) look at github suggests   
   > the effect is confined to the Pi4 and Pi5.   
   >   
   > I was wondering if rpi-eeprom might also effect part of the   
   > boot process on older Raspberry Pi boards. Not strictly eeprom   
   > code, but maybe extending to the DOS materials like bootcode.bin.   
   > It's understood there's no hardware equivalence, but there might   
   > be some functional equivalence.   
      
   Those live in the firmware, which is stored in the raspi-firmware   
   binary package:   
      
   https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/raspi-firmware/   
      
   Theo   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)   
   SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 129/305 153/757   
   SEEN-BY: 153/7715 218/0 1 601 700 840 870 930 220/70 221/1 6 360 226/17   
   SEEN-BY: 226/30 100 227/114 229/110 111 114 200 206 300 317 400 426   
   SEEN-BY: 229/428 470 550 616 664 700 240/1120 266/512 267/800 282/1038   
   SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/854 301/1 113 812 310/31 320/219 322/757 335/364   
   SEEN-BY: 341/66 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 3 100   
   SEEN-BY: 770/330 340 772/210 220 230 5020/400 1042 5058/104 5075/35   
   PATH: 770/3 1 218/840 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca