Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Reimplementation/fixing of CS5530/CS5530A southbridge code

[Peter Stuge]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:15:00PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:38:13PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Uwe Hermann  [070606 23:34]:
> > > code and had several other problems, e.g. it enabled write
> > > access to the ROM (why?)
> >
> > for flash updates so flashrom does not have to do it.
>
> OK, then I'll drop this. That's the job of flashrom.

Not neccessarily.

Initially flashrom didn't have to do the job at all because the BIOS
did enable the ROM access.
>     Some even more elegant solution?

reg8 &= ~(SECONDARY_IDE_ENABLE);
if (conf->ide1_enable)
    reg8 |= SECONDARY_IDE_ENABLE;

?

//Peter