On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 08:51:42PM +0100, Javier Bizcocho wrote:
Hello Paul,
Thank you very much for the advice, I'll have a look at how to enable this "board enable code".
Perhaps I can have look at the code of other chips of similar "LPC/FWH" types (some Winbond?).
Here is the phoronix report on the talk i gave at fosdem in 2010.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/fosdem_2010_flash
Video/Audio should have been recorded but never got released. This was 4 years before fosdem started offering their full video coverage (which is an insane feat each and every year).
The slides include 3 drawings which should give you an idea of what is going on.
Dell has some weird tools to flash the bios on this machine. It cannot be excluded that these tools do more than just get an image on the flash chip, so your mileage may vary.
Luc Verhaegen.