successful BIOS flash report

[John-Paul Vanderjagt]

Dear maintainers at [e-mail].

FYI, I'd like to report a successful BIOS flash on an Asus P5K-V
main board.  See relevant info below.  You may update your list
http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware with this info.  Thanks for
producing flashrom.

Kind regards.
John-Paul Vanderjagt.
Wellington, New Zealand.
<flashrom at vanderjagt dot co dot nz>

Manual of main board:

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5K-V/e3269_p5k-v_manual.zip

% rpm -qa flashrom
flashrom-0.9.3_r1246-3.1.i586

% uname -a
Linux server 2.6.37.6-0.11-default #1 SMP 2011-12-19 23:39:38 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

% cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
VERSION = 11.4
CODENAME = Celadon

% cat dmidecode.out_after_bios_upgrade
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
70 structures occupying 2500 bytes.
Table at 0x000F06F0.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
        Version: 1002
        Release Date: 06/18/2008
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 1024 kB
        Characteristics:
[...]
        BIOS Revision: 8.12

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: System manufacturer
        Product Name: P5K-V
        Version: System Version
        Serial Number: System Serial Number
        UUID: 00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch
        SKU Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Family: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
        Product Name: P5K-V
        Version: Rev 1.xx
        Serial Number: MB-1234567890
        Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Features:
                Board is a hosting board
                Board is replaceable
        Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003
        Type: Motherboard
        Contained Object Handles: 0
[...]

% diff dmidecode.out_after_bios_upgrade dmidecode.out_before_bios_upgrade
3,4c3,4
< 70 structures occupying 2500 bytes.
< Table at 0x000F06F0.
---
> 70 structures occupying 2492 bytes.
> Table at 0x000F06E0.

9,10c9,10
<       Version: 1002
<       Release Date: 06/18/2008
---
>   Version: 0212
>   Release Date: 05/24/2007

48c48
<       UUID: 00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
---
>   UUID: A095EBCD-CBFE-D511-B2E2-001BFC90E48F

58c58
<       Serial Number: MB-1234567890
---
>   Serial Number: MS1C75B79Y01238

80c80
<       OEM Information: 0x00000004
---
>   OEM Information: 0x00000001

590c590
<       String 1: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
---
>   String 1: 001BFC90E48F

[...]

[Stefan Tauner]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:40:10 +1300
John-Paul Vanderjagt  wrote:
> Dear maintainers at [e-mail].
>
> FYI, I'd like to report a successful BIOS flash on an Asus P5K-V
> main board.  See relevant info below.  You may update your list
> http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware with this info.  Thanks for
> producing flashrom.
> […]

Hello John-Paul,

thanks for your report!
I have marked the mainboard as supported and will commit that later
together with other small changes.
Your report contains quite some information we actually don't care much
about. More important than anything else is the (verbose/-V) output of
the actual write operation of flashrom (or if that is no longer
available just the verbose output of a probe (i.e. just flashrom -V).
Apart from that a link to the vendor website is handy and the exact
revision of the board if applicable might be of interest sometimes. I
write this because you seem to have invested quite some time on your
report (which i really appreciate).