[flashrom] [PATCH] Neuter probe for ITE SuperIO

Ed Swierk eswierk at cs.stanford.edu
Tue Aug 17 00:25:06 CEST 2010


> On 16.08.2010 18:15, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I would like to get this issue fixed before the next flashrom release,
>> but I didn't see any response from you yet.
>>
>> On 23.06.2010 10:30, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>
>>> On 23.06.2010 08:49, Ed Swierk wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> If the system has an SMSC LPC47N217N SuperIO, enter_conf_mode_ite()
>>>> enters configuration mode, and then exit_conf_mode_ite() kills power to
>>>> the serial UART.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if there is a proper way to detect what kind of SuperIO the
>>>> system has, but probe_superio_ite() is unsafe in its current form.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> In theory, running superiotool should have the same effect as running
>>> current flashrom. Can you please check that?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If running superiotool has no bad side effects, I plan to just copy that
>> code over to flashrom and be happy.

Sorry, I didn't get a chance to try out superiotool before I left my
previous employer, and I no longer have access to the board with this
SuperIO.

If you have a patch to flashrom that does the same thing as
superiotool, I can ask my former colleagues to give it a try.

--Ed




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