Supermicro X8DTE-F

[Michael Fuckner]

Hi all,

I have a lot of supermicro boards/ systems at hand and I first tried it 
this morning and it worked with X8DTE-F, so it will most likely also 
work with X8DT6 (same bios file). Do you also need flashrom -V or -z?

I hope I have some time to test other boards available.

Regards,
  Michael!

test131:/media/flashrom # ./flashrom -w ~/x8dt61.830
flashrom v0.9.4-r1470 on Linux 3.1.0-1.2-default (x86_64), built with 
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.6.2, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chipset "Intel ICH10R". Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L3205" (4096 kB, SPI) at physical address 
0xffc00000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
test131:/media/flashrom #

[Stefan Tauner]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:34:26 +0100
Michael Fuckner  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a lot of supermicro boards/ systems at hand and I first tried it 
> this morning and it worked with X8DTE-F, so it will most likely also 
> work with X8DT6 (same bios file). Do you also need flashrom -V or -z?
>
> I hope I have some time to test other boards available.

Hello Michael,

thanks for your report!
I have added the board to our list of supported boards and will commit
that later together with other small changes.
Boards using the same update file will most probably work yes, but we
do only add boards that were tested specifically.
Next time a verbose (-V) log would be appreciated, but it is not really
necessary. -z is never needed for such reports, we just use it
internally when generating wiki pages (it is not compiled in by default
btw). Looking forward to see more reports, but don't waste your time by
doing BIOS updates just to test flashrom. There are probably better
ways to help us. (It is very much appreciated though!)

[Michael Fuckner]

On 12/10/2011 01:06 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>  Looking forward to see more reports,

but don't waste your time by
> doing BIOS updates just to test flashrom. There are probably better
> ways to help us.

for example?

Regards,
  Michael!

[Paul Menzel]

Am Samstag, den 10.12.2011, 08:15 +0100 schrieb Michael Fuckner:
> On 12/10/2011 01:06 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> > Looking forward to see more reports,

Yes me too. Thank you for doing that.
> > but don't waste your time by
> > doing BIOS updates just to test flashrom. There are probably better
> > ways to help us.
>
> for example?

When you keep on sending these reports, maybe you could even generate
patches by yourself (svn co` or `git svn` and then `git commit`, `git
format-patch -1` which Stefan just needs to merge in his repository? I
do not know if Stefan agrees though.

Other ways would be to test or even review patches, help people on the
list or IRC and lastly to write code yourself. ;-)

Thanks,

Paul

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:15:37 +0100
Michael Fuckner  wrote:
> On 12/10/2011 01:06 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> >  Looking forward to see more reports,
>
> but don't waste your time by
> > doing BIOS updates just to test flashrom. There are probably better
> > ways to help us.
>
> for example?

besides what paul suggested (although i am not a fan of one-line
patches due to their overhead for everyone) we have also a list of
small tasks for newbies in our wiki:
http://www.flashrom.org/Easy_projects
Of course testing boards is also useful. Maybe we can also come up with
more and/or discuss the existing or your own ideas on IRC (#flashrom on
irc.freenode.net).