[flashrom] [PATCH] Add Nvidia nForce MCP6x/MCP7x series SPI flashing support

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sun Jul 4 12:47:39 CEST 2010


On 04.07.2010 10:11, Kimmo Vuorinen wrote:
> On 07/03/2010 04:29 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> you have sent a report for a mainboard with Nvidia nForce chipset, and
>> we now have a patch to support your chipset and would appreciate if you
>> could test (unless you can't recover in case something goes wrong).
>>
>> The following chipsets would be nice to get reports for:
>> MCP78S: Ivo Anjo, Julian Hughes, Dietmar Gaffron, Kimmo Vuorinen, Urja
>> Rannikko, ataya65, Vikram Noel Ambrose, Marcel Partap, antioxid, Rainer
>> Stumbaum, Brad Rogers
>>     
>
> I also did a read test but result differs from bios image downloaded
> from mainboard manufacturer. Should this match only when default bios
> settings are used?
>   

If you downloaded exactly the same BIOS version as is installed on your
mainboard, only a few places (total maybe 4 kBytes) should differ. Newer
BIOSes often store DMI information and boot time and network card MAC
addresses in the flash chip, and those regions are thus expected to
differ from the download.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

-- 
http://www.hailfinger.org/





More information about the flashrom mailing list