Ah.  I'm in the midst of doing some system upgrades so I will upgrade to openSUSE 11.4 first so that I'll have the latest build of flashrom.  (11.2 won't be getting further updates.)  I'll report what I find!

Thanks!

From: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Vinh Le <linuxvinh@yahoo.com>
Cc: flashrom@flashrom.org
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [flashrom] MSI Big Bang Xpower

On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:35:20 -0700 (PDT)
Vinh Le <linuxvinh@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I understand the version I used is old but I didn't see the motherboard listed in the hardware compatibility list.  Is there a chance it'll work but not on the list?
>
we can not test every new board ourselves of course so the list will
never reflect the whole truth until one tries ;)
at least i dont see anything in the log that would indicate that it
will not work. the flash chip is not supported in your version but was
added and tested ok later. your chipset is configured in a way that
does not hinder flashrom. the only thing that could be is that your
board needs a patch to deactivate the write protection as described here
http://flashrom.org/Board_Enable
not every board does need it though and it could be that your board
works out of the box. we would like to hear anyway ;)
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner