[flashrom] [PATCH 2/2] Add board enable for Biostar M7VIQ.

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 02:06:48AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:42:37 +0200
> Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:30:53AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> > > The PCI IDs are generic VIA IDs. Only Biostar IDs are those of the LOM, but
> > > that would not be a good choice for ID. Accept the generic IDs (+ DMI string)
> > > for now because this will be generic soonish(tm) anyway.
> > 
> > > +	{0x1106, 0x3177, 0x1106, 0x3177,  0x1106, 0x3116, 0x1106, 0x3116, "^KM266-8235$", NULL, NULL,         P3, "Biostar",     "M7VIQ",                 0,   OK, w83697xx_memw_enable_2e},
> > 
> > "KM266-8235" is "VIA Northbridge marketing name"-"VIA Southbridge 
> > marketing name with VT removed".
> > 
> > This DMI string is not unique at all.
> 
> true, yet there is no real alternative and a rationale was given to why
> it does not really matter much anyway. just ranting does not really
> help in this case :)
> 

Surely a specific board name can still be provided on the command line
for horribly broken bioses like this?

Luc Verhaegen.