Author: mkarcher Date: Sun Mar 7 23:29:28 2010 New Revision: 926 URL: http://flashrom.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/926
Log: Move untested board enable documentation to manpage This also checks the testedness of boards in all cases, not just for PCI/DMI detection. Signed-off-by: Michael Karcher <[email protected]> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]> Modified: trunk/board_enable.c trunk/flashrom.8 Modified: trunk/board_enable.c ============================================================================== --- trunk/board_enable.c Sun Mar 7 17:52:59 2010 (r925) +++ trunk/board_enable.c Sun Mar 7 23:29:28 2010 (r926) @@ -1425,30 +1425,6 @@ } } - if (board->status == NT) { - if (!force_boardenable) - { - printf("WARNING: Your mainboard is %s %s, but the mainboard-specific\n" - "code has not been marked as working. To help flashrom development, please\n" - "test flashrom on your board. As the code to support your board is untested,\n" - "we strongly recommend that as an additional safety measure you make\n" - "store backup of your current ROM contents (obtained by flashrom -r) on\n" - "a medium that can be accessed from a different computer (like an USB\n" - "drive or a network share of another system) before you try to erase or\n" - "write.\n" - "The untested code does not run unless you specify the\n" - " \"-p internal:boardenable=force\" command line option. Depending on your\n" - "hardware environment, erasing, writing or even probing can fail without\n" - "running the board specific code. Running the board-specific code might\n" - "cause your computer to behave erratically if it is wrong.\n" - "Please report the results of running the board enable code to\n" - "[email protected].\n", - board->vendor_name, board->board_name); - continue; - } - printf("NOTE: Running an untested board enable procedure.\n" - "Please report success/failure to [email protected]\n"); - } return board; } @@ -1466,6 +1442,23 @@ if (!board) board = board_match_pci_card_ids(); + if (board->status == NT) { + if (!force_boardenable) + { + printf("WARNING: Your mainboard is %s %s, but the mainboard-specific\n" + "code has not been tested, and thus will not not be executed by default.\n" + "Depending on your hardware environment, erasing, writing or even probing\n" + "can fail without running the board specific code.\n\n" + "Please see the man page (section PROGRAMMER SPECIFIC INFO, subsection\n" + "\"internal programmer\") for details\n", + board->vendor_name, board->board_name); + board = NULL; + } + else + printf("NOTE: Running an untested board enable procedure.\n" + "Please report success/failure to [email protected]\n"); + } + if (board) { if (board->max_rom_decode_parallel) max_rom_decode.parallel = Modified: trunk/flashrom.8 ============================================================================== --- trunk/flashrom.8 Sun Mar 7 17:52:59 2010 (r925) +++ trunk/flashrom.8 Sun Mar 7 23:29:28 2010 (r926) @@ -175,6 +175,47 @@ programmers use a key/value interface in which the key and value is separated by an equal sign and different pairs are separated by a comma or a colon. .TP +.BR "internal " programmer +Some mainboards require to run mainboard specific code to enable flash erase +and write support (and probe support on old systems with parallel flash). +The mainboard brand and model (if it requires specific code) is usually +autodetected using one of the following mechanisms: If your system is +running coreboot, the mainboard type is determined from the coreboot table, +otherwise, the mainboard is detected by examining the onboard PCI devices +and possibly DMI info. If PCI and DMI do not contain information to uniquely +identify the mainboard (which is the exception), it might be necessary to +specify the mainboard using the \-m switch (see above). +.sp +Some of these board-specific flash enabling functions (called board enables) +in flashrom have not yet been tested. If your mainboard is detected needing +an untested board enable function, a warning message is printed and the +board enable is not executed, because a wrong board enable function might +cause the system to behave erratically, as board enable functions touch the +low-level internals of a mainboard. Not executing a board enable function +(if one is needed) might cause detection or erasing failure. If your board +protects only part of the flash (commonly the top end, called boot block), +flashrom might encounter an error only after erasing the unprotected part, +so running without the board-enable function might be dangerous for erase +and write (which includes erase). +.sp +The suggested procedure for a mainboard with untested board specific code is +to first try to probe the ROM (just invoke flashrom and check that it +detects your flash chip type) without running the board enable code (i.e. +without any parameters). If it finds your chip, fine, otherwise, retry +probing your chip with the board-enable code running, using +.sp +.B "flashrom -p internal:boardenable=force" +.sp +If your chip is still not detected, the board enable code seems to be broken +or the flash chip unsupported. Otherwise, make a backup of your current ROM +contents (using \-r) and store it to a medium outside of your computer, like +an USB drive or a network share. If you needed to run the board enable code +already for probing, use it for reading too. Now you can try to write the +new image. You should enable the board enable code in any case now, as it +has been written because it is known that writing/erasing without the board +enable is going to fail. In any case (success or failure), please report to +the flashrom mailing list, see below. +.sp .BR "dummy " programmer An optional parameter specifies the bus types it should support. For that you have to use the _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
