Am Donnerstag, den 18.02.2010, 23:40 +0100 schrieb Michael Karcher: > > could you please take care of this one? Mike has been waiting for 5 > > months to get a solution, and a stream of unlucky events caused his > > request to end up on the TODO list each time. > First result: The BIOS is a new-style Phoenix BIOS image with the board > enable code appended to the ROM. The idea of cutting the first 512K to > get the BIOS image is correct. This file format is usually distributed > with the extension ".WPH".
The BIOS upgrade does not contain an GPIO board enable in the upgrade code. I would guess that the GPIO based boot block write protection that was observed on this board is already disabled in startup code by the vendor. Mike, do you have a board with the vendor BIOS and a coreboot board, both running linux, at hand? If yes, I can send you a tool that dumps GPIO configuration for both the chipset and the SuperIO, so we can compare the differences. Beforehands you should check whether flashrom works on a board with vendor the BIOS. If yes, the crucial point is really hidden in the POST code. As I understand it, you have a lot of boards to flash, so hot-swap-flashing in another board is not an option for you. Regards, Michael Karcher _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
