[flashrom] Flashrom MSI KT4V support.

Sean Nelson audiohacked at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 19:12:28 CET 2009


On 11/25/2009 10:01 AM, Sean Nelson wrote:
> On 10/21/2009 4:44 PM, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:33:11PM -0700, Sean Nelson wrote:
>>> the "anomaly" is the code for my board to enable flash writing. That's
>>> the reason why it's has it's own board enable arguments in flashrom.
>>>
>>> Sadly I don't remember what I did with the board since I upgraded the
>>> machine to a NForce4 set. If I find it, i'll try to send you the dumps
>>> you need.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Luc Verhaegen<libv at skynet.be>  wrote:
>>>> Hi Sean,
>>>>
>>>> I have some questions about your kt4v/kt4ultra board enable:
>>>>
>>>> 1) I am about to move some code from many vt823x based board
>>>> enables to the chipset enable. Your board enable has some "similar"
>>>> code, but not quite, and it now forms the only anomaly.
>>>>
>>>> Can you send me the output of:
>>>>   dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/kt4v_system.rom bs=64k count=1 skip=15
>>>> so i can have a dig through the top segment of your AMI BIOS to verify
>>>> this code?
>>>>
>>>> 2) I am about to tighten up the board enable matching table.
>>>>   * both the coreboot ids will disappear.
>>>>   * we need a second set for the kt4v.
>>>>   Can you send in lspci -vvnnxxx on both boards?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Luc Verhaegen.
>>>>
>> The anomalies are the following:
>>
>> * it touches the register that vt823x based board enables often touch.
>> but instead of clearing the 1 bit, it clears all except two.
>> * it provides coreboot ids while it can match the one board just fine.
>> * it provides no full set of pciids for the second board.
>>
>> Luc Verhaegen.
> Took some time to get the data you needed. As soon as I hunt down the 
> KT3 Ultra2 lspci I'll send it to you.
I don't think I'll be able to send you the KT3 Ultra2 lspci, I don't 
think I ever made a lspci dump and I don't have the board anymore.




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