[LinuxBIOS] buildrom: Update AMD LX platforms
Jordan Crouse
jordan.crouse at amd.com
Wed Sep 26 23:17:40 CEST 2007
On 26/09/07 14:45 -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
>
>
> ron minnich wrote:
> > On 9/26/07, Marc Jones <marc.jones at amd.com> wrote:
> >> Ron,
> >> I have tested it. :)
> >> I have not used flashrom since I use a rom emulator. I will look into it.
> >
> > I fixed my msm800sev problem. The part is an FWH part. We have a
> > problem in flashrom in that parts can be FWH or LPC and I don't know
> > how to detect this in flashrom. These dual-mode parts kind of break
> > the structure a bit.
> >
> > oh well.
> >
> > ron
> >
>
> Glad you figured this out. I couldn't think of anything off the top of
> my head.
>
> For Geode 5536 you can check which mode it is in.
> DIVIL_BALL_OPT - MSR 51400015h PRI_BOOT_LOC [3:2]
>
> It would be nice to have msr support in flashrom so it could handle
> write protect and rom type checking.
Yes - you should just merge the readmsr and writemsr code into flashrom
directly - avoid the outside middleman.
Jordan
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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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