ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 board support

[PaulK]

Hi! I'm new to this list so I'll start by introducing myself a bit: I'm
a french student involved in free software: I use GNU/Linux distros on
all my PCs, mostly with the fully free Trisquel distro and I'm also a
developer (I know C quite well) mostly involved in the Replicant project
(fully free Android derivate) as a hacker (lower-level stuff).

The lead dev on the project (GNUtoo) decided to look at how doable it is
to port his board to coreboot, so I decided to follow his lead and look
at which of the motherboards I own would be the best one for coreboot. I
have 2 boards that might be good candidates, ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2
(which has a socketed PLCC32 chip) and Asus P5LP-LE (Lithium) with a
soldered PLCC32 chip. Both boards have supported North/Southbridge and
SuperIO already supported in coreboot.

I decided to start the work on the ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 one and got
a few needed things from the local electronics shop. Then I started to
run flashrom on it. So far, I've been able to read the content of the
PLCC chip with flashrom
(http://download.paulk.fr/coreboot/conroe-xfire-esata2.bin) but it
failed at write.

All the logs and necessary informations should be attached to this
mail.

What are the next steps for me to have working write on flashrom with
that board?

[PATCH] ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 board support

[PaulK]

Thanks to roysjosh on IRC, I was able to quickly get the write 
protection off with intel_ich_gpio16_raise

I was able to write the non-free BIOS to another chip and boot this
chip: it works perfectly!

So the logs of write in flashrom along with the diff I made of the board
line in board_enable.c are attached to this mail

Diff should be:
Signed-off-by: Joshua Roys <roysjosh at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski

[PATCH] ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 board support

[Stefan Tauner]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:10:41 +0100
PaulK  wrote:
> Thanks to roysjosh on IRC, I was able to quickly get the write 
> protection off with intel_ich_gpio16_raise
>
> I was able to write the non-free BIOS to another chip and boot this
> chip: it works perfectly!
>
> So the logs of write in flashrom along with the diff I made of the board
> line in board_enable.c are attached to this mail
>
> Diff should be:
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Roys <roysjosh at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski

thanks paul (and joshua!)
i have added another pci id set and also an entry for the board to
print.c.
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner 
and committed in r1468.