[flashrom] [PATCH] Board enable for ASUS P5LP-LE

[Idwer Vollering]

2010/9/10 Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:27:15PM +0200, Michael Karcher wrote:
>> + *  - ASUS P5LP-LE (Epson/HP OEM)
>
> OK, this one is going to be interesting.
>
> The board is made by ASUS for HP, it seems. HP calls it "Leonite" or "Leonite-GL8E".
>
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00864946
>
> But that would have been too easy. There are a bunch of other boards
> on the HP site which are also called P5LP-LE, but have different HP code
> names. From a quick glance I see at least:
>
>  P5LP-LE (Leonite)
>  P5LP-LE (Leonite2)
>  P5LP-LE (Lithium)
>  P5LP-LE (Limestone)
>  P5LP-LE (Emery)
>
> Fun! I don't know how to differ between them, the dmidecode from Leon
> Zhang <leoncamel at gmail.com> said:
>
>  DMI string system-manufacturer: "EPSON DIRECT CORP."
>  DMI string system-product-name: "Endeavor MT7700"
>  DMI string system-version: ""
>  DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "ASUSTek Computer INC."
>  DMI string baseboard-product-name: "P5LP-LE"
>
> We don't know if other "P5LP-LE" might have the "Leonite" (or other) HP code
> name in there or not. Maybe something is printed as silkscreen on the board?
>
> An then one of these HP OEM boards is built into the Epson
> "Endeavor MT7700" system/PC.
>
> So it's a bit unclear which vendor/board name we should use in this
> case. It's probably best to mention all of them for better googling
> results.
>
> Attached is a slightly updated patch for review, let me know what you
> think.

Ofcourse, there is more: there is a ASUS P5LP-LE (Lithium) board out
there with 103c:2a22 instead of 1043:2a22 as the subsystem ID. The
similarity is that it requires intel_ich_gpio34_raise to disable the
write protection.

lspci -nnvvvxxx: http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=778
flashrom -V -w ../sp35100/319.rom: http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=779

Machine URL: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=1159887

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