[flashrom] Flashrom MSI KT4V support.

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Sat Nov 28 15:28:05 CET 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:12:28AM -0800, Sean Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Ok, but what about the kt4ultra?

Luc Verhaegen.




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