On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400 Kenneth Frost kfrost@OEMCONTROLS.com wrote:
Hi Stefan,
I was able to download the latest version of flashrom( flashrom-0.9.4-r1398 ), compile it and restore the original bios that I saved before attempting to do the write.
The funny thing was that I had to run the original flashrom-0.9.3-r1205 with the write option which resulted in a failure and then run the latest version of flashrom which resulted in a good write. It almost seems the earlier version leaves some control register in a state that the newer version of flashrom can deal with.
good. verbose logs of those tries would be very interesting to see i think. just to be sure: writing the backup with 0.9.4 was unsuccessful without running 0.9.3 previously with just the same options? maybe running 0.9.3 twice would have resulted in the same behavior. i can't comment further on this one. if someone reverse engineers the bios, the output of lspci -xxnnvvv would help us to create a matching board enable.