[flashrom] P5B-VM DO support

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Jul 27 16:05:25 CEST 2012


On Tue, 29 May 2012 19:43:08 -0600
Justin Bogner <mail at justinbogner.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I tried out flashrom on one of my machines and it asked me to send a
> verbose log here, since my mainboard isn't listed on the supported
> hardware page.
> 
> The non-verbose log errors with "FREG4: WARNING: Platform Data region is
> locked" and the chipset is Intel ICH8DO. The mainboard is this one:
> 
>     http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5BVM_DO
> 

Hello Justin,

i think this is actually a false positive: FREG4 is all zeroes and
should be ignored. This is not specified in public documentation by
Intel, but i am quite sure. We had a similar case (newer Intel chipset
though) a few months ago. When using the ich_spi_force parameter (please
look at the manpage for details, i dont want to spoil how to do it to
not encourage others to try without reading the details) flashrom should
work on your board. Please be aware that MAC addresses of onboard NICs
are sometimes saved in flash and need special handling then, so make a
backup of the old contents before trying anything (this is always a
good idea actually ;)

I will fix the false detection soon-ish, thanks for bringing this up!

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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