[flashrom] Success report: MSI A75MA-G55 (MS-7696)

[Bill McGonigle]

Thanks for flashrom! It enabled me to fix some problems I was having 
without buying a copy of Windows.  Diagnostics for this board attached.

Say, MSI BIOS updating is a mess.  MSI provides a Windows-only tool, the 
users on their forum have made a bootable-USB builder (Windows-only) 
which installs a flash tool, and MSI endorses that, but the users say to 
never use the flash tool that MSI distributes.  Worse yet, MSI no longer 
distributes flash images via their website - they want you to update 
with their Windows tool (apparently one can e-mail support for a copy of 
the flash images; I just grabbed a final beta from the forum as I had 
limited time).  The forum-users' tool apparently (from screenshots) can 
also download the flash images from MSI (with versioning, so one can 
downgrade).

Anyway, that's quite a bit of background to ask if it anybody has 
discussed adding vendor-specific handlers/plugins to qflashrom.  If 
that's desirable the logic for MSI could probably be ported over from 
the Windows tool.  The flashrom LiveCD would be tremendously useful for 
folks in the field with this sort of capability.

-Bill

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