[LinuxBIOS] Getting Friendly with Flashrom

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Mar 22 15:40:47 CET 2007


* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> [070322 15:35]:
> Why not use an extra utility for this (detect_flash_enable_strategy)?
> 
> # ./detect_flash_enable_strategy
> Performing PCI and SuperIO config space dump 1...
> Calling Flash enable hooks in proprietary BIOS....
> Performing PCI and SuperIO config space dump 2...
> Diffing dumps...
> PCI config space byte 0x13 of device 00:1e.0 changed from 0x20 to 0x30
> Please mail the above information with lspci -nv and a description
> of your mainboard to linuxbios at linuxbios.org.
> 
> What do you think?

Great idea. This could even be a shell script utilizing dump_superio and
lspci. (heh, should dump_superio be called lspnp?)

Stefan

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