Is it possible to flash coreboot with proprietary vendor tools?

[Iru Cai]

Hi,

Can I use proprietary vendor tools like winflash or a vendor BIOS
update disk to flash coreboot? I don't think it possible but I can't
find a reason to explain, or it may be possible if I modify the ROM
format to fit those tools.

Iru Cai

Is it possible to flash coreboot with proprietary vendor tools?

[David Hendricks]

coreboot does not depend on the tool used to flash it. Proprietary vendor
tools should work, but they might perform some additional step beyond
flashing that will not work with coreboot, for example, checking validity
of a proprietary signature.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Iru Cai  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can I use proprietary vendor tools like winflash or a vendor BIOS
> update disk to flash coreboot? I don't think it possible but I can't
> find a reason to explain, or it may be possible if I modify the ROM
> format to fit those tools.
>
> Iru Cai

Is it possible to flash coreboot with proprietary vendor tools?

[Peter Stuge]

Iru Cai wrote:
> Can I use proprietary vendor tools like winflash or a vendor BIOS
> update disk to flash coreboot?

In general no.
> I don't think it possible but I can't find a reason to explain,

Vendor tools try to ensure that you will only flash an image which is
known by the vendor to be compatible with the mainboard. That usually
means only vendor BIOS images.

//Peter