[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: board specific enables based on matching pci-ids.

Corey Osgood corey_osgood at verizon.net
Wed Mar 28 05:48:33 CEST 2007


Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> This dump is fully non-intrusive, and it would allow me to:
> * Fix this PCChips motherboard.
> * Find out whether it really is as easy under AMI as i think it is :)
>   I've already seen that it's highly trivial under award/phoenix with 
>   the asus board.
> 
> So the sooner you send this on, the sooner your motherboard will be 
> happy and the sooner some general conclusion is reached about the flash 
> enables. :)
> 
> Imho an lrmi extension is not a good option, the knowledge of flash 
> enable disappears as soon as something other than the manufacturers rom 
> is installed.
> 
> flashrom needs native support for each motherboard it wishes to support.
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.
> 

Sorry to keep you waiting, the board rejected Gentoo because I forgot to
get the i586 stage 3 tarball instead of the i686 one, and I haven't had
time to mess around with it again. I'm about to start the Ubuntu install
again, I'll have that dump for you in a couple hours.

-Corey




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