Sorry Stefan,
I've been busy and our test lab is being used to do a regression right now so I've not had time to try and compile and test the patch you provided.
I do intend to do so, give me a little more time and I'll see what I can do.
On the topic of IBM and help, I have been in discussion with IBM about the firmware updates and they have been very adamant that we need to insure that we update all the devices not just the BIOS itself. From looking at a handful of their update packages, I can see that they frequently include updates for riser cards, service processors and possibly other devices with the BIOS updates. So before we implement something with flashrom we would want to make sure we're not missing something that could later cause us issues even if the issues are only that IBM is unhappy because we didn't follow their update procedures.
IBM's retail group is going through some changes since Toshiba acquired them. We'll need to wait and see what the new management is going to do, maybe they will be more open to open source involvement.
Thanks.
Jason Vannest Information Technology - Store Systems Abercrombie & Fitch 614-283-6363 (desk)
From: Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at To: flashrom@flashrom.org, Cc: Jason_Vannest@abercrombie.com Date: 08/14/2012 07:23 PM Subject: Re: [flashrom] IBM SurePOS 700 4800-783 support
Hello Jason!
I have sent you a patch to try almost a month ago without any reply. I would like to know if you could solve your problem another way and don't rely on getting flashrom to work anymore. In any case it would be much appreciated if you could test the patch i have sent. Is that possible? If you need any assistance dont hesitate to ask us!