Re: [flashrom] [PATCH 5/7] warn if SMM BIOS Write Protection is detected in BIOS_CNTL

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:15:52 -0700
Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> > if (old&  (5<<  1)) {
> > msg_pinfo("WARNING: BIOS region SMM protection is enabled!\n");
> > return -1;  
>
> You might still be successful doing the write, in case the SMM handler 
> does not enforce the protection, so maybe you should just print a 
> warning but not return here?

ok

also:
1<<5 of course!
thanks joshua for reporting this