[flashrom] W836xx:NI 8351 (rebranded MSI MS-9218) flashrom -V

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:22:15 +0100
"Miklos Marton" <miklos.marton at ni.com> wrote:

Hello Miklos and thanks for your report!

I presume you did not try to write to that board yet. Because you left
out the laptop force switch on the second, verbose run, there is a lot
of information missing, but i think it would be safe to try writing to
it in general anyway (and if you need to e.g. update the firmware). It
could be that there is a write protection though, but flashrom would
show us that if you try erasing/writing and there is a write protection
active.

> Our company is manufacturing a wide range of embedded x86 based PXI 
> controllers. I have checked some, and most of them was worked with the 
> flashrom after specifying the this_is_not_a_laptop  switch. 
> What kind of information do you need to get them officaly verified and 
> supported?

By testing do you mean that you have also tried writing or just
probing/reading? On most flash chips flashrom can not tell if it is
write protected or not, one has to try.

The general policy to add a board to our supported list is therefore a
log that shows a legit write. Please note that this requires
verbose output, because only then flashrom shows what it really does.
Without that you would not see if flashrom skips the whole erase/write
process because the flash chip content is equal to the image file.

The question is though if it makes sense to include PXI controllers
that (please forgive me :) are not very common. But if you want to do
the testing i can add them of course.

BTW the laptop force switch depends on the DMI chassis information. If
your firmware engineers would use something else than "Other" (or one
of the laptop/mobile values) you would not need to specify it.
-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner