[coreboot] flashrom patch to enable ROM decode range to 1MB for vt8237r

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Apr 28 19:52:53 CEST 2008


bari wrote:
> His patch was for a mainboard and not for flashrom.
>
> It is safe for the earlier SB's since they use the register the same 
> way. If you are trying to move from a 256K or 512K flash device to a 1MB 
> flash, flashrom will not work without this patch if the factory BIOS has 
> not opened the decode range to 1MB.
>
> -Bari
>   
I agree.

Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>

> Corey Osgood wrote:
>   
>> Is this safe/sane on vt8235/vt8233/vt8231? And I thought ruik had 
>> already posted/committed a patch to do this, but I can't see if now.
>>
>> -Corey
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:35 AM, bari <bari at onelabs.com 
>> <mailto:bari at onelabs.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     This enables the vt8237r to decode ROMs up to 1MB.
>>
>>
>>     flashrom: Enable ROM decode range to 1MB for vt8237r
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com <mailto:bari at onelabs.com>>
>>
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