[LinuxBIOS] mcp55 flashrom problem
Richard Smith
smithbone at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 08:25:25 CET 2007
Ed Swierk wrote:
>
> I used flashrom several months ago to read the vendor's BIOS. I did
> not actually compare it against the one posted on their web site, but
> I thought the contents looked plausible when I went grepping through
> it for strings.
>
> I can give it another try when I get my hands on the DFI board again next week.
That's exactly what we thought as well. The de-compressed code in RAM
has loads of bios type strings in it.
But all most all the bios these days are compressed. So a copy of whats
_actually_ in the ROM should have very little in the way of strings.
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Richard A. Smith
smithbone at gmail.com
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