[flashrom] SFDP has autodetected a flash chip which is not natively supported by flashrom yet

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Nov 5 23:33:09 CET 2015


On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 03:38:14 +0800
Greg Tippit <greg at tippitt.net> wrote:

> First off, thank you for your work on such a useful program.  I have
> used it more times that I can remember, and I have never had a single
> problem flashing a motherboard BIOS using your program.  If you
> accepted PayPal donations, I would buy you all a beverage of your
> choice.
> 
> I have a new stick PC from China called the MeeGoPad T02, which uses
> an Intel Atom SOC.
> 
> They have a little English support at x86pad.com, where I found a
> updated BIOS for this device.
> 
> When I made of backup of the existing BIOS on the device, I got the
> message about it not yet having native support.  The read seemed to go
> okay.  I have attached a copy of the verbose output as you requested.
> 
> Assuming all the normal warnings, is it safe to try flashing the new
> BIOS using flashrom, or should I wait for you to work your "Native
> Magic"?

Hi,

AFAICT it should work fine. However, full support was already added and
is available since commit r1889. So you could also upgrade if you like.
I'd appreciate a report afterwards in any case. ;)

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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