[flashrom] Flashrom to flash video cards

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Apr 18 14:47:48 CEST 2015


On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:59:32 +0300
"nicolae788 ." <nicolae788 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, i am wondering how can i make flashrom to look at the
> isa/pci/agp/pcie video card in order to flash the bios of it.
> 
> Thank you

Hi,

long time ago there were some video cards supported in flashrom. They
are not much different to other supported PCI(E) programmers in
flashrom. After all, they are just an interface to a flash chip like a
network card is for its boot flash.
The problem is that no one cared any longer for graphics cards and that
the interface changed and became way more complicated.

So "making flashrom to look at * card in order to flash the bios of it"
does not cut it. You need to reverse engineer the correct access
pattern and reimplement it in a flashrom programmer module.

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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