On 5 October 2010 13:58, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi Joe,

any updates on whether this patch works for you?

On 10.09.2010 12:11, Joe Tym wrote:
> Thanks for your work on this. I'm on holiday at the moment for the next week
> but I'll get this tested as soon as I get back and update you on the
> outcome.
>

> On 9 September 2010 20:44, Joshua Roys <roysjosh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/28/2010 06:36 PM, Joe Tym wrote:
>>

>>> my motherboard is an aopen i975xa-ydg
>>>

>> I have an experimental board enable here for you to try... please get
>> the latest flashrom from SVN, apply the attached patch, compile and run:
>> ./flashrom -p internal:boardenable=force -Vw bios.bin
>>
>> Please let us know if that works or not and attach the output from the
>> above command in your reply. *NOTE*: There is a chance that the chip
>> will be only partially unlocked. Make a backup first (./flashrom -r
>> backup.bin), and if the erase step fails you will be able to verify if
>> the BIOS is OK or not (via ./flashrom -v backup.bin). If the chip ends
>> up in a bad state, join the IRC channel again :)
>>
>> Some technical notes of why this may only partially unlock the
>> protection are in the patch, but I will duplicate them here in case some
>> archive strips attachments completely:
>>
>> vendor BIOS ends up in LDN6... maybe the board enable is wrong,
>> or perhaps it's not needed at all?
>> the regs it tries to touch are 0xF0, 0xF1, 0xF2 which means if it
>> were in the right LDN, it would have to be GPIO1 or GPIO3
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Josh
>>

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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