[coreboot] flashrom issues found??

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Mar 12 16:25:38 CET 2008


On 12.03.2008 13:46, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 12.03.2008 04:47, ron minnich wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:03 PM,  <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>>  What does this mean? Also Intel has a development SDK for a
>>>  development i830 board very close to this one that has a linux flash
>>>  utility (pre-built binary, no source) with it. I am thinking of trying
>>>  it with an ?strace? to see what it does? Would that help to find out
>>>  what is going on here?
>>>     
>>>       
>> strace won't show you memory references. That's the only issue.  
>>     
>
> Dumping the ICH GPIO settings and PCI config space (once) before and
> (repeatedly) during a flash operation with the Intel SDK flash utility
> may help you solve the mystery. If you can't find any differences, you
> may have to resort to renouveau and revenge (reverse engineering tools
> of nouveau and radeon developers, respectively).
>   

A PCI config space dump under factory BIOS and coreboot would be
appreciated. As I wrote in another mail, knowing the MTRRs would help as
well.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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