On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:52, Michael Karcher <[email protected]> wrote: > This board is a typical problem board, as there seems to be no sane > device. OTOH, MSI is quite good at their subsystem IDs, in that the > subsystem ID is the four-digit board number 7061 in this case, so > matching one subsystem ID on MSI boards is good enough. > > An ID that can't be turned off is the DMI string, but we prefer to have > flashrom working without DMI, too. I am really at loss what to do here. > Probably pick just one of the MSI-branded devices (to reduce the > likelyhood of hitting a disabled one) and the south bridge (with > meaningless subsystem IDs, as you correctly found out). > > We have: > - VGA - probably goes away if an AGP card is put in. > - Audio - could be disabled in server use (onboard VGA boards might be > used in servers quite likely) > - Network - Just 100 MBit. Might be replaced by an gigabit card in > server use > - SATA RAID - This chip thankfully seems to have just one PCI ID > (unlike Intel where the same chip has up to three IDs for > AHCI/RAID/compatibility). > > So for desktop use of that board, the VGA device is probably unreliable, > for server use audio and network. So I suggest to go with SATA/RAID and > south bridge. > > For either your original PCI ID set, or my suggestion (after testing > that the match still applies), the patch is > > Acked-by: Michael Karcher <[email protected]>
Thanks for your comments! Here is the patch again. Matching on SATA/RAID (with subsystem IDs) and south bridge (without subsystem IDs) as suggested. Tested and works. Signed-off-by: Mattias Mattsson <[email protected]> -mattias
msi_km4am-v_try2.patch
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