Re: [coreboot] flashrom issues??

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  [080229 20:13]:
> > > > Yes, it means the actual flash write mechanism is protected, though the
> > > > ID command gets through. I had the same thing on another ICH4M board.
> > > > Might be SMM protection, some GPIO or some other mapping/locking
> > > > mechanism.
> > >
> > > Do you remember what you did to fix this on the ICH4-M?
> >
> > The issue remained unfixed, I used a Galep5 to burn the flash chips.
>
> In theory, this should be debuggable with DOS ports of the ICH GPIO dumper 
> and superiotool.

SMM based bios lock down? How so? It does not seem to be a GPIO issue in
case.