[coreboot] flashrom and list of computers

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Jun 6 21:36:47 CEST 2008


On 06.06.2008 21:08, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anybody have an idea what to do if ICH6 BIOS Lock is enabled and
>> BIOS Write is disabled? Removing the lock bit seems to fail according to
>> flashrom.
>>     
> Yes, put a magic signature somewhere, go to S3 and wake up again.
>   

Thanks. I'm not sure this applies to Dell machines as well, though,
because they use an in-BIOS flash updater which looks for a complete
BIOS image at a few predefined memory locations after every soft reboot.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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