[LinuxBIOS] EPIA CL

Markus Boas bios at ryven.de
Mon May 28 17:46:00 CEST 2007


Am Montag 28 Mai 2007 schrieb Luc Verhaegen:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:32:33PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:30:53AM +0200, Markus Boas wrote:
> > > The interessting thing is that the Flashrom tool dedectet a
> > > Epia M/MII Board
> >
> > flashrom can only guess, unfortunately. The heuristics used are
> > quite broad in some cases so any board with the right chips can
> > look just like the EPIA-M/MII boards. Sorry about this.
> >
> > We should change the wording in flashrom output to reflect this.
>
> Did it say Epia M/MII or did it say Epia M/MII/...? If i didn't write
> the latter there, i made a mistake, as i should have.

Found chipset "VT8235": Enabling flash write... OK.
Found board "VIA EPIA M/MII/...": Enabling flash write... OK.

>
> This is all because VIA had no clue about pci subsystem ids at the time.
> This idiocy persists across newer generations of epia boards too,
> although there recently was some evidence that VIA finally understood
> this.
>
> Also... Most of the embedded devices based on the CLE266 + C3, they
> usually carry those same ids. Ain't that cute?
>
> Luc Verhaegen.




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