[flashrom] IBM SurePOS 700 4800-783 support

[Idwer Vollering]

2012/7/20 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:57:36 +0200
> Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> Above all we need to work on the support for the VIA chipset (VT8251),
>> but IBM won't be able to help us with that. I have no news regarding
>> that.
>
> Hello again,
>
> i have a patch for you to test. It tries to add support for the VT8251
> by using the code for similar VIA chipsets. We are pretty confident
> that it will work although we could not verify it against a datasheet
> (yet). The Renesas chip might still be a problem, but we hopefully be
> able to take one step forward. Please apply the attached patch to the
> current subversion head

You can find the subversion URI here:
http://www.flashrom.org/Downloads#Installation_from_source
Run 'make' after patching.

> and send us the output of
>
> flashrom -V -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop
>
> and if that finds a chip also the output of
>
> flashrom -V -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop -r testfile.bin
>
> Please don't try to write or erase yet!
> --
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
>
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