On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:36:15 +0100 "Pavel Stehlík" pavel.stehlik@centrum.cz wrote:
Bios written and read sueccessfully. (On Xubuntu 11.10 Oneiric) Thanks for your work on this utility, Pavel Stehlik.
Hello Pavel,
thanks for your report! I have marked the mainboard as tested and will commit that later together with other small changes.
P.S. : Possibility to rewrite Macronix_MX25L8005 status register (user value, 00->FF or something like that) would be welcome. I wont to write-protect my BIOS and besides connecting pin 3(!WP) to gnd, setting of some bits of SR is neccessary.
without looking at the datasheet i presume that connecting !WP to ground is enough to write protect the whole chip. The lock bits in the status register are a sofware write protection that works independently of the hardware protection (normally). Some chips indicate the HW protection status in the SR though (and flashrom prints it sometimes).