On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:11:18 -0400 Bill McGonigle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for flashrom! It enabled me to fix some problems I was having > without buying a copy of Windows. Diagnostics for this board attached. > > Say, MSI BIOS updating is a mess. MSI provides a Windows-only tool, the > users on their forum have made a bootable-USB builder (Windows-only) > which installs a flash tool, and MSI endorses that, but the users say to > never use the flash tool that MSI distributes. Worse yet, MSI no longer > distributes flash images via their website - they want you to update > with their Windows tool (apparently one can e-mail support for a copy of > the flash images; I just grabbed a final beta from the forum as I had > limited time). The forum-users' tool apparently (from screenshots) can > also download the flash images from MSI (with versioning, so one can > downgrade). > > Anyway, that's quite a bit of background to ask if it anybody has > discussed adding vendor-specific handlers/plugins to qflashrom. If > that's desirable the logic for MSI could probably be ported over from > the Windows tool. The flashrom LiveCD would be tremendously useful for > folks in the field with this sort of capability. > > -Bill > Hello Bill, Thanks for your report! I have marked the board as supported and will commit that later together with other small changes. Regarding the limitation of downloads at the MSI site: interesting news. Google still finds some download links, and the user tool probably just generates similar links as: http://download1.msi.com/files/downloads/bos_exe/7696v13.zip I agree that having such a (semi-automatic) way to update the firmware of a mainboard would be a nice thing, but OTOH someone has to dedicate lots of time to create and maintain such a plugin because URLs change a lot. We notice that all the time for the product pages because we (used to) link to them from http://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware. Besides, there are enough other open problems that are more important to address than downloading and extracting a zip for the user. ;) -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
