i think the spi chips are wired to both south bridge and super I/O. carl: i do not think that SB700 has this mechanism, it must be the time circuit of this patent. i find that before booting bios, there is several seconds delay after powering up.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> wrote: > on 15/07/2010 21:09 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger said the following: > > > > Did you know that SB700 (and later) has its own Dual BIOS mechanism? If > > there is interest, I can help with implementing support for that feature > > in flashrom. > > Does that mechanism require that flash chips are wired to the south bridge > (handled by its SPI controller)? Or is it a more generic mechanism? > > -- > Andriy Gapon > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- Wang Qing Pei Phone: 86+13426369984
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