flashrom works on ASUS P2B-LS almost as is

[Keith Hui]

Hi,

I am sent from coreboot mailing list to help make flashrom fully
working on my Asus P2B-LS board fully work. When I did mine, I just
forced ASUS P2B-F as the target and it works. No modification to
flashrom required.

The flash chip on my board is SST 39SF020 and all operations work.
Used this setup to flash coreboot several times while booted with
coreboot.

Good news is the board enable for P2B-LS would be identical to P2B-F
meaning a lot less work.

Cheers
Keith

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Keith,

thanks for your report.

On 11.04.2010 05:17, Keith Hui wrote:
> I am sent from coreboot mailing list to help make flashrom fully
> working on my Asus P2B-LS board fully work. When I did mine, I just
> forced ASUS P2B-F as the target and it works.

This is very strange. Can you tell us how you forced the P2B-F in flashrom?
> No modification to flashrom required.
>
> The flash chip on my board is SST 39SF020 and all operations work.
> Used this setup to flash coreboot several times while booted with
> coreboot.
>
> Good news is the board enable for P2B-LS would be identical to P2B-F
> meaning a lot less work.

Unless I'm mistaken, the P2B-F does not need a board enable at all.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Keith Hui]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
 wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> thanks for your report.
>
> On 11.04.2010 05:17, Keith Hui wrote:
> > I am sent from coreboot mailing list to help make flashrom fully
> > working on my Asus P2B-LS board fully work. When I did mine, I just
> > forced ASUS P2B-F as the target and it works.
>
> This is very strange. Can you tell us how you forced the P2B-F in flashrom?

By the usual command line parameters:

flashrom -w -f -t ASUS:P2B-F coreboot.rom
> > No modification to flashrom required.
> >
> > The flash chip on my board is SST 39SF020 and all operations work.
> > Used this setup to flash coreboot several times while booted with
> > coreboot.
> >
> > Good news is the board enable for P2B-LS would be identical to P2B-F
> > meaning a lot less work.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, the P2B-F does not need a board enable at all.

"... the lack of board enable for P2B-LS would be identical to P2B-F"
definitely means even less work. LOL

So the 'LS doesn't need any board enable, just an entry somewhere.

Cheers
Keith

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 11.04.2010 06:37, Keith Hui wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
>  wrote:
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> > thanks for your report.
> >
> > On 11.04.2010 05:17, Keith Hui wrote:
> > > I am sent from coreboot mailing list to help make flashrom fully
> > > working on my Asus P2B-LS board fully work. When I did mine, I just
> > > forced ASUS P2B-F as the target and it works.
> >
> > This is very strange. Can you tell us how you forced the P2B-F in flashrom?
>
> By the usual command line parameters:
>
> flashrom -w -f -t ASUS:P2B-F coreboot.rom

Strange. flashrom should have complained that there is no board enable
for this boad. AFAICS the following command line should work just fine:

flashrom -w coreboot.rom
> "... the lack of board enable for P2B-LS would be identical to P2B-F"
> definitely means even less work. LOL
>
> So the 'LS doesn't need any board enable, just an entry somewhere.

Great, thanks for your report.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel