[flashrom] Remove board enable for Asus P5A.

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Wed Oct 21 17:46:20 CEST 2009


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 05:43:50PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> A first: removal of what might be a working board enable still.
> 
> Long story short; it's horrible and i do not want to spend any time on 
> cleaning it up. We have better things to do.
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.

> Remove board enable for the Asus P5A.
> 
> Asus P5A was a very popular supersocket7 board more than a decade ago. I'm
> sure that some people still have some working examples around, but they are
> getting less and less common. I think that i am pretty much the only one
> around still who would try to use flashrom for this board.
> 
> There's an io line from the Asus AS61256-8 chip to the WP on the flash. But
> there is no info on this chip. We are using SMBUS on the ALI chip, and while
> this routine here could be improved a lot, what is the point?

Extra blurp still sitting here in an unsaved buffer:
As the author of this horrible board enable, who himself had blow the dust
off of this board a few days ago, and who had to reseat quite few things to
let it boot; let it rest in peace.

Luc Verhaegen.




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