On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:40:30PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
Tyan s2891, s2892, and s2895 are all supported without enables.
Thanks, updated.
I assume you tested at least one write or erase operation on all three boards so you can be sure that there's no write-enable needed?
That list seems like a hard one to keep up to date.
Not any harder than the list of tested chips, chipsets, etc. which we maintain already.
Also, these two lists (known-good and known-bad boards) have been maintained on the wiki for quite a while now already, we just moved the "master" list into the tool, so that users can also get it with 'flashrom -L' etc. (as we did with the list of supported chips and chipsets).
There are only a few boards that i own that require special code as well... For instance, most of my msi boards are just happy without anything special.
Please send a list of the vendor/name of those boards where you tested write/erase with flashrom, I'll add them (or feel free to commit yourself with a self-ack).
But of course, if someone is crazy enough to want the sysiphean task of maintaining such a list by himself, then by all means, let him do so, but don't expect him to keep it up for long.
I'm here, I'll do it. It's just another list, just as the list of chip testing reports, it can be maintained no problem.
The lists are _very_ important for users IMHO, we keep getting "is my board supported by flashrom?" questions which this answers. Also, a user has no simple means to find out if his board needs a write-enable (without risking to brick the hardware in the process) the list is even more important. It gives him either a "yes, someone has successfully tested that writes work on this board" or "no, this board has been verified to need special write-enables which are not (yet) implemented/reversed so please don't use flashrom on this board).
If the user's board is in neither category, he'll probably show up in IRC and we can help to test and put the boards in any of the categories.
Thanks, Uwe.