On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:01:49 +0100 Patrick Welche prlw1@cam.ac.uk wrote:
Is there a newbies list?
I thought I would attempt to upgrade the firmware of a SiI3124 SATALink PCI card plugged into a P4XP-X motherboard. Stage one seems to be to run flashrom -V (attached). It seems that P4XP-X isn't listed in flashrom -L, so maybe I could "test" somehow?
hi there!
bernd has already answered most of your questions. the only thing i want to add is this: the list of mainboards in flashrom -L and in the wiki are only indicating support for flashing the onboard flash chips (where the BIOS/firmware) resides. for pci-based (and other "external") programmers this is not relevant. the "problem" is, that the internal programmer is the default. for everything else you have to select the programmer with the -p option as bernd told you and which is also described in the man page.