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| author | karolherbst <karolherbst@web> | 2017-04-18 16:22:32 +0000 |
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| committer | nouveau <iki-nouveau@freedesktop.org> | 2017-04-18 16:22:32 +0000 |
| commit | ee497ba3f6cbf634fa6f7ff4321bbc23c15d768f (patch) | |
| tree | f983b96b8ce60dde871e5646e8e15dbe35a6a50a | |
| parent | bae1e7540ac98c84a7b1731878fbce5a7d3f5117 (diff) | |
remove outdated ways to retrieve it
| -rw-r--r-- | DumpingVideoBios.mdwn | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/DumpingVideoBios.mdwn b/DumpingVideoBios.mdwn index 20217c7..18a3740 100644 --- a/DumpingVideoBios.mdwn +++ b/DumpingVideoBios.mdwn @@ -10,12 +10,6 @@ A video BIOS may contain x86 binary code, binary scripts and several data tables There are several options on how to dump the BIOS: -* vbtracetool: [[http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~stuart/vbtracetool/|http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~stuart/vbtracetool/]] - * Vbtracetool can do more than just dump the BIOS, and is the recommended method. You can get it with git: `git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~stuart/vbtracetool` and then follow the QUICKSTART. -* using /sys: `echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pciid>/rom; cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pciid>/rom > vbios.rom; echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pciid>/rom` -* using a dd incantation: `dd if=/dev/mem of=vbios.rom bs=1k skip=768 count=64` - * This can result in a damaged BIOS dump unfortunately, due to possible mangling when the system BIOS copies the video BIOS in shadow RAM. -* nvclock: [[http://www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock/|http://www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock/]] * nvagetbios: [[https://github.com/envytools/envytools/blob/master/nva/nvagetbios.c]] * using any nouveau module after 2.6.34 ([[commit|http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=b42861f40f5ea3261d9fa1d5533496bf1fc812cf]]): * `cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vbios.rom > vbios.rom` `Note: assuming that you have debugfs mounted on "/sys/kernel/debug"` |