ASUS OPLX-M results (no flash device found)

[Ville Skyttä]

Hello,

I tried out flashrom on a ASUS OPLX-M motherboard, and it didn't find a flash 
device.  I found some info by googling (that I cannot verify) that the OPLX-M 
would be an OEM (or something) version of the ASUS MEL-M; I suppose this 
particular board originally came with a Fujitsu/Siemens PC.

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=MEL-M&SLanguage...

FAILED: ASUS OPLX-M

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sunday 17 October 2010, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried out flashrom on a ASUS OPLX-M motherboard, and it didn't find a
> flash device.  I found some info by googling (that I cannot verify) that
> the OPLX-M would be an OEM (or something) version of the ASUS MEL-M; I
> suppose this particular board originally came with a Fujitsu/Siemens PC.

FWIW, this board will go elsewhere next week, so after that I won't be able to 
test with it any longer.

[Joshua Roys]

On 10/17/2010 06:35 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried out flashrom on a ASUS OPLX-M motherboard, and it didn't find a flash 
> device.  I found some info by googling (that I cannot verify) that the OPLX-M 
> would be an OEM (or something) version of the ASUS MEL-M; I suppose this 
> particular board originally came with a Fujitsu/Siemens PC.
>
> http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=MEL-M&SLanguage...

Hello,

Attached is a partial (quick, hacky) patch that might get the board
working.  The vendor enable does some other funky stuff with MTRRs/MSRs,
SMIs, cache and legacy ISA address forward twiddling.  I would only use
this patch to read and verify the existing contents, just to be safe.

Josh

[Ville Skyttä]

On Monday 25 October 2010, Joshua Roys wrote:
> On 10/17/2010 06:35 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I tried out flashrom on a ASUS OPLX-M motherboard, and it didn't find a
> > flash device.  I found some info by googling (that I cannot verify) that
> > the OPLX-M would be an OEM (or something) version of the ASUS MEL-M; I
> > suppose this particular board originally came with a Fujitsu/Siemens PC.
> >
> > http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=MEL-M&SLanguage...
> > en-us
>
> Hello,
>
> Attached is a partial (quick, hacky) patch that might get the board
> working.  The vendor enable does some other funky stuff with MTRRs/MSRs,
> SMIs, cache and legacy ISA address forward twiddling.  I would only use
> this patch to read and verify the existing contents, just to be safe.

Thanks, read and verify report success with this patch (which needs a 
s/ASSU/ASUS/ though ;)), see attachments.

Risking bricking this board is not a big deal, let me know if you think 
testing write and erase are worth a shot too and I can try them out.

[Stefan Tauner]

i have rebased and committed that (untested) board enable now in r1501
to reduce the patch pile.

Ville: thanks for testing!