> > On 11.04.2010 20:24, Joseph Smith wrote: > >> On 04/11/2010 12:09 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >> >>> See patch >>> >>> >> Could we also add M50FW080 to probe for also? >> >> Some variations have either M50FW040 or M50FW080. >> > Hm. Since those are flash chips, I think we may want to think about GPIO > reads in flashrom instead. OTOH, GPIO read/write is not a classic > flashrom task at all. > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > Carl-Daniel > > By the time flashrom could be running it's a bit late to find out whether the connected IDE device can do UDMA :-)
So we need to find out while coreboot device init is still running. In fact the current place might even be too late already (should be mainboard enable, not init). Of course you might decide to add support to dumping those GPIOs to flashrom, but I don't really mind either way. Stefan -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
