Hi list,

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:07 PM Clay Daniels <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Congrats, Aspen. I have a MSI X570-A PRO (MS-7C37) Motherboard and trying to get flashrom v1.2 on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT to recognize my mb. Looking at the supported hardware at https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware I don't see my mb NOR yours either. Give me a little more detail on how you made this happen on a fairly recent MSI mb like ours. (On or off list).

While both mainboards are new, they're night and day. The MSI
Z370-A-PRO is an Intel platform, whereas the MSI X570-A PRO is an AMD
platform.

One of the main use-cases of flashrom is to rewrite the boot firmware
(BIOS, UEFI, coreboot...), and flashrom is often used to flash
coreboot onto things. What's more, coreboot and flashrom use the same
review infrastructure [1], so it's easy for coreboot developers to
contribute to flashrom. There's coreboot support for Intel Coffee
Lake, but not for AMD Zen stuff; and flashrom support is in a similar
situation.

I know there's some patches that enable support floating around.
However, I don't think anyone pushed anything for review (if so, I
must have missed it). There might be something in the GitHub pull
requests, but I haven't checked. Since the GitHub repo is a mirror,
it's not possible to accept pull requests through it, and transferring
the PRs to Gerrit isn't trivial because of the sign-off requirement
[2]. Yes, that page also mentions using GitHub, but it then says that
one should use Gerrit instead. Maybe I'll rewrite that part at some
point.

[1]: https://review.coreboot.org
[2]: https://flashrom.org/Development_Guidelines#Sign-off_Procedure