[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] gigabyte m57sli-s4 support for flashrom

[Ward Vandewege]

Add support for the Gigabyte m57sli-s4 board to flashrom.

Signed-off-by: Ward Vandewege

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Thanks,
Ward.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ward Vandewege  [070228 22:02]:
> Add support for the Gigabyte m57sli-s4 board to flashrom.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ward Vandewege

Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer

and committed in r2564.

Stefan

[Dave Crossland]

On 28/02/07, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Ward Vandewege  [070228 22:02]:
> > Add support for the Gigabyte m57sli-s4 board to flashrom.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ward Vandewege
>
> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer 
> and committed in r2564.

Is this the final piece that was mentioned as missing to date? :-)

Also, my machine arrived today, and its BIOS is indeed soldered on. My
supplier advised that I won't be able to get a BIOS Saviour or spare
chip, and I'll have to get the LinuxBIOS upgrade right the first time,
or I'll brick the motherboard... :-(

[Ward Vandewege]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:02:12PM +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 28/02/07, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> > Ward Vandewege  [070228 22:02]:
> > > Add support for the Gigabyte m57sli-s4 board to flashrom.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ward Vandewege
> >
> > Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer 
> > and committed in r2564.
>
> Is this the final piece that was mentioned as missing to date? :-)

No, the missing bits are usb/debug related. But have a look at the patch that
Carl-Daniel posted today (haven't tried it yet). This is just to get flashrom
to work correctly.
> Also, my machine arrived today, and its BIOS is indeed soldered on. My
> supplier advised that I won't be able to get a BIOS Saviour or spare
> chip, and I'll have to get the LinuxBIOS upgrade right the first time,
> or I'll brick the motherboard... :-(

Yeah. We're going to desolder the chip, and put a socket on, so that we can
use a bios savior.

Thanks,
Ward.

[Dave Crossland]

On 28/02/07, Ward Vandewege  wrote:
> > its BIOS is indeed soldered on
>
> Yeah. We're going to desolder the chip, and put a socket on, so that we can
> use a bios savior.

Wow! Cool! :-)

Unfortunately this is way outside of my skillset, so I'll wait until
things are more stable.

Please keep the list updated with your progress! :-)