[flashrom] Abit NF-M2 nView upgrade problem

[Grzesiek]

On 11.01.2012 13:27, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:45:39 +0100
> Grzesiek<gzohop at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 11.01.2012 00:54, Stefan Tauner wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:43:30 +0100
>>> Grzesiek Pycia<gzohop at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to upgrade bios on Abit NF-M2 nView mainboard which is marked
>>>> as supported but it is impossible, because it fails on erasing the chip,
>>>> so I'm sending log as advised by flashrom.
>>>> If there are some other information needed or testing please let me know
>>>> I'll be happy to help out.
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> your board needs a small piece of code to make the flash rom writable.
>>> actually we already have it in the source and it is just not triggered
>>> on your board. the question is why. we identify mainboards via PCI IDs
>>> (and sometimes SMBIOS data) and apparently yours does not match our
>>> pattern. please provide the output of
>>> lspci -nn
>>> lspci -nnxxxvvv
>>>
>> There it goes.
> thanks!
> your log shows that you have added a GeForce 8600 GT discrete graphics
> card. normally we try to avoid to include pci devices in our pattern
> that can easily be changed or disabled in the firmware, but in the
> existing board enable code the onboard card was specified. this is a
> counter example of what should have been done obviously.
>
> please change the source as specified in the patch snippet below and
> recompile. it should then detect your mainboard reliably. it is a
> one-line change in board_enable.c that removes the VGA IDs and adds the
> IDs from the LPC controller, which should always be there.
>
> sorry for this! please report back if it has worked. i will commit it
> then to our repository with other small changes. thanks!
>
>

Seems to work, update and verification was successful.
I'll report back in few hours if the board does work after reboot, 
because it is at remote location.

Regards