Am Montag, 26. Juli 2010 schrieb Jörg Fischer:
Hi,
Axel Bergerhoff schrieb:
tried several Tyan 2915 (S2915A2NRF) and S2915-E (S2915A2NRF-E) all with the same result. #1 Using flashrom -r to get the PROM's content and comparing that with the appropriate version from Tyan's website gives differences in all cases.
That's expected behaviour. Your flash will contain serial numbers of you board, MAC address(es) of your on-board NIC(s) and other dynamic stuff. The flash tool form your vendor will know about this and does not touch these specific areas.
Flashrom on the other hand does not know anything about this and will happily overwrite this data.
#2 Took a 2915 (S2915A2NRF) and flashed with the DOS tool offered by Tyan (phlash16.exe) to BIOS revision 3.00 (2915v300.rom). Then reread with flashrom -r and compared both files - a bunch of differencies again. I attached the outputs of flashrom, lspci, and superiotool for this board.
Same issue here.
-- Jim
Thx. Just flashed the first one with flashrom, worked fine.
Axel