[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] buildrom: Update AMD LX platforms

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 00:38:51 CEST 2007


On 9/26/07, Tom Sylla <tsylla at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm confused. Why do you have to talk differently to a FWH or LPC
> device? If the 5536 booted from a device, it should continue talking
> to that device unless someone changed the BALL_OPTS our from under it

the issue is that flashrom was not designed to associate two access
methods for a single part. FWH has a totally different block locking
method, requiring a second mmap, etc. I have found that a jedec (LPC)
sequence can in some cases ID a part that is a FWH-strapped part.
Weird but true -- I just saw it again today.

it's all a headache.

ron




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