I tested flashrom on this board; BIOS file on MSI-site despite extension .exe is a zip-file. TODO: update tables in http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom
Manufacturer: Micro-star international Product: MSI 694D Pro2
Link to manufacturers description: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&mai...
used version of flashrom and chipset info:
$ svn info flashrom Path: flashrom URL: https://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/util/flashrom Repository Root: https://coreboot.org/repos Repository UUID: 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1 Revision: 3811 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: hailfinger Last Changed Rev: 3809 Last Changed Date: 2008-12-10 11:32:05 +0100 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008)
$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/flashrom Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. Found chipset "VIA VT82C686A/B", enabling flash write... OK. Found chip "EON EN29F002(A)(N)T" (256 KB) at physical address 0xfffc0000. No operations were specified.
$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16) 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02) 00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link) 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) 00:0f.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:0f.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:0f.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08) 00:11.0 Communication controller: PLX Technology, Inc. PCI <-> IOBus Bridge (rev 01) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 42) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
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Peter Gsellmann