Hi Joe, any updates on whether this patch works for you?
On 10.09.2010 12:11, Joe Tym wrote: > Thanks for your work on this. I'm on holiday at the moment for the next week > but I'll get this tested as soon as I get back and update you on the > outcome. > > On 9 September 2010 20:44, Joshua Roys <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 07/28/2010 06:36 PM, Joe Tym wrote: >> >>> my motherboard is an aopen i975xa-ydg >>> >> I have an experimental board enable here for you to try... please get >> the latest flashrom from SVN, apply the attached patch, compile and run: >> ./flashrom -p internal:boardenable=force -Vw bios.bin >> >> Please let us know if that works or not and attach the output from the >> above command in your reply. *NOTE*: There is a chance that the chip >> will be only partially unlocked. Make a backup first (./flashrom -r >> backup.bin), and if the erase step fails you will be able to verify if >> the BIOS is OK or not (via ./flashrom -v backup.bin). If the chip ends >> up in a bad state, join the IRC channel again :) >> >> Some technical notes of why this may only partially unlock the >> protection are in the patch, but I will duplicate them here in case some >> archive strips attachments completely: >> >> vendor BIOS ends up in LDN6... maybe the board enable is wrong, >> or perhaps it's not needed at all? >> the regs it tries to touch are 0xF0, 0xF1, 0xF2 which means if it >> were in the right LDN, it would have to be GPIO1 or GPIO3 >> >> Good luck, >> >> Josh >> Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
