Hi,

I'm trying to work out how to access a device on the LPC bus (via ICH7).
The device in question is the system BIOS. I need to be able to read the
entire contents of the BIOS flash device directly from the device.

I know how to read the run-time, decompressed BIOS image from system
memory, via the SMBIOS pointers. This is no good to me.

I (guess I) need to tickle the ICH7 LPC controller?!?

How does one achieve this under WinXP?

Regards,
Mark

Mark McDougall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to work out how to access a device on the LPC bus (via ICH7).
> The device in question is the system BIOS. I need to be able to read the
> entire contents of the BIOS flash device directly from the device.
>
> I know how to read the run-time, decompressed BIOS image from system
> memory, via the SMBIOS pointers. This is no good to me.
>
> I (guess I) need to tickle the ICH7 LPC controller?!?
>
> How does one achieve this under WinXP?
>
> Regards,
> Mark
If what you want to read is a properly enumerated device in the ACPI
namespace then you can write a function driver for it. You may have to
replace an existing (and probably null) system device. See the ACPI
subkey of Enum in the registry.

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