[flashrom] [PATCH] Add ECS RS485M-M and Biostar TA780G M2+ boards

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 30.07.2010 19:39, Daniel Lenski wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 19:12 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:39:06PM -0400, Daniel Lenski wrote:
>>     
>>> I own both these boards, and they work fine with flashrom
>>> internal programming.
>>>
>>> ECS RS485M-M is Socket AM2, AMD SB600-based
>>> Biostar TA780G M2+ is Socket AM2, AMD 780G-based
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lenski <dlenski at gmail.com>
>>>       
> A detail: Flashrom can flash and verify an as-provided Biostar BIOS
> image on the TA780G board, but it will fail to boot.  This is apparently
> because of some binary patch that the OEM utilities apply prior to
> flashing, and not because of a problem with the flash write/erase per
> se. Fortunately, Biostar has a really good BIOS failsafe mode.
>
> >From what I've gathered on the mailing list, such issues are usually not
> signaled in the Flashrom docs or wiki... although maybe they should be?
>   

We have a "note" field in the board list. It is NULL for your board, but
it can be any string, and for problematic boards it usually is an URL to
a mailing list message, and a few words about what's broken.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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