IT87: Add ability to select between chips on GIGABYTE DualBIOS boards
Thanks to Vadim Girlin for finding out how to do that.
This is known to work on GA-MA770-UD3, GA-B75M-D3V, GA-B75N and
GA-H61M-S1 (only M_BIOS is populated).
Corresponding to flashrom svn r1720.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Girlin <vadimgirlin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Zammit <damien@zamaudio.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Tested-by: Damien Zammit <damien@zamaudio.com>
Tested-by: Anton Kochkov <anton.kochkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
diff --git a/flashrom.8 b/flashrom.8
index dccfd1a..c52542a 100644
--- a/flashrom.8
+++ b/flashrom.8
@@ -315,6 +315,19 @@
.TP
.B ITE IT87 Super I/O
.sp
+If your mainboard is manufactured by GIGABYTE and supports DualBIOS it is very likely that it uses an
+ITE IT87 series Super I/O to switch between the two flash chips. Only one of them can be accessed at a time
+and you can manually select which one to use with the
+.sp
+.B " flashrom \-p internal:dualbiosindex=chip"
+.sp
+syntax where
+.B chip
+is the index of the chip to use (0 = main, 1 = backup). You can check which one is currently selected by
+leaving out the
+.B chip
+parameter.
+.sp
If your mainboard uses an ITE IT87 series Super I/O for LPC<->SPI flash bus
translation, flashrom should autodetect that configuration. If you want to
set the I/O base port of the IT87 series SPI controller manually instead of