Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] IP1000 board specific GPIOs

[Joseph Smith]

On 04/11/2010 03:00 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 11.04.2010 20:24, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > On 04/11/2010 12:09 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > See patch
> >
> > Could we also add M50FW080 to probe for also?
> >
> > Some variations have either M50FW040 or M50FW080.
>
> Hm. Since those are flash chips, I think we may want to think about GPIO
> reads in flashrom instead. OTOH, GPIO read/write is not a classic
> flashrom task at all.

Carl-Daniel,
The only reason we need to probe these is because the IDE cable_detect 
pin is connected to a FWH GPI pin. This way we can Boot ATA100 instead 
of slow ATA33. Not sure if it is needed in flashrom, but it may make 
interesting util?