[coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

Ronald Hoogenboom ronald at zonnet.nl
Sun Feb 24 23:37:22 CET 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:21 +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:34 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
<...>
> > > -default MAINBOARD_PCI_SUBSYSTEM_VENDOR_ID=0x1022
> > > -default MAINBOARD_PCI_SUBSYSTEM_DEVICE_ID=0x2b80
> > > +default MAINBOARD_PCI_SUBSYSTEM_VENDOR_ID=0x1458
> > > +default MAINBOARD_PCI_SUBSYSTEM_DEVICE_ID=0xe000
> > 
> > Also unrelated to the rest of the patch? This does not seem to have any
> > effect on my box. Also; the proprietary bios uses 0x1022; why are you
> > changing this?
> > 
> My prop. BIOS does put the gigabyte subvendor ID in. When I changed it,
> I was only looking at MCP55 only (which gets the e000 DID from the prop.
> BIOS), I didn't realize the setting inpacted EVERY PCI card that can set
> subsystem ID's. Indeed it didn't have any effect with me either, but I
> do think that the 1458 vendor is more appropriate (for what that's
> worth...)
> 
I was totally bullshitting here... I changed it to make
'kudzu' (RedHat/Fedora's new-hardware detector) NOT re-configure my
network interface when booted coreboot. These are the values put in by
the proprietary bios for the PCI 00:08.0 (MCP55 Ethernet).

Ronald.






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