[flashrom] Flashrom to flash video cards

[nicolae788 .]

Hi, thank you very much for your reply. I understand that flashrom
currently doesn't have the posibility to access the pcie slot, for example,
and detect the chip on the vga board in order to write it. However i found
a flashrom, apparently modified for ati vga cards...do you want me to send
it to you and check it?

Alex
On Apr 18, 2015 3:47 PM, "Stefan Tauner" <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
wrote:

> 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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