On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:18:04 -0400 TR Reardon reardonia@gmail.com wrote:
cool, just tried and was enable to read the descriptor (64K) and then the actual BIOS (6MB). I had to edit out the write-only check in cli_classic.c, assumed that was relatively safe.
I have no idea what you are talking about, sorry.
The --verify function doesn't work per se, but the files I was able to extract using --read matched.
I'd be interested in details... like logs ;)
The BIOS files mostly seem to match what is posted by ASUS online. That is, other than configuration areas which I don't understand. I assume that when a tool like BUPDATER from Asus reads a BIOS update file, it doesn't simply overwrite the entire BIOS area? I mean, there are quite a few 64KB configuration areas containing things like the motherboard name. Or is this relatively safe to overwrite?
Only ASUS knows. It might be completely save to overwrite such areas if the firmware initializes them with a default configuration... but I would not try that without a way to recover (e.g. external programmer... which should be easy in your case because the flash is socketed).
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Stefan Tauner