[coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] m57sli : debugging the flashrom problem when booting with LB

[ron minnich]

On Jan 13, 2008 2:32 PM, Florentin Demetrescu <echelon at free.fr> wrote:

> 5) after booting with LB, and forcing the following registers of the lpc bridge
> with the following comands:
>  setpci -s 00:01.0 a0.l=c1100001
>  setpci -s 00:01.0 a4.l=0
>  setpci -s 00:01.0 a8.l=0
>  setpci -s 00:01.0 ac.l=0
>  setpci -s 00:01.0 b0.l=02f40295
>  setpci -s 00:01.0 b4.l=085f0800
> (force them at same values as in proprietary bios)
> the command "flashrom -m gigabyte:m57sli" do not hang anymore and correctly
> identifies the flash chip (I haven't tested yet a full flash programming)

Do you think these values would be the same for all mainboards using
this part? That answer will determine how we incorporate this fix.

thanks

ron