Re: [flashrom] actual bios settings

[Stefan Reinauer]

Bart Swinnen wrote:
> rminnich wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Bart Swinnen  wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Does flashrom normally also reads actual BIOS setting of a board?
> > > I'm trying flashrom on IEI Wafer-LX-800
> > > It finds PMC Pm49FL004 device and I can read it.
> > > It gives me a 512k bin file. If I write this file to another board of its
> > > kind, I still have the actual settings of that board and not the one stored
> > > in the board where I had the bin from.
> > > Am I missing something?
> >
> > some settings are maintained in CMOS, and flashrom can not/should not
> > change them as part of flashing.
>
> Is there a way to read CMOS, and write CMOS with linux?

util/nvramtool in the coreboot tree.