[flashrom] actual bios settings

rminnich rminnich at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 17:28:24 CEST 2009


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Bart Swinnen <bart.swinnen at luminex.be> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does flashrom normally also reads actual BIOS setting of a board?
> I'm trying flashrom on IEI Wafer-LX-800
> It finds PMC Pm49FL004 device and I can read it.
> It gives me a 512k bin file. If I write this file to another board of its
> kind, I still have the actual settings of that board and not the one stored
> in the board where I had the bin from.
> Am I missing something?

some settings are maintained in CMOS, and flashrom can not/should not
change them as part of flashing.

ron




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