Add a bunch of new/tested stuff and various small changes 14
Tested Mainboards:
OK:
- ASUS M3A78-EH
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2010-October/005297.html
- ASUS P2B-LS
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2010-November/005506.html
- Biostar TA790GX A3+
http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1350
- ECS 848P-A7
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2011-January/005781.html
- GIGABYTE GA-G41MT-S2PT
Reported on IRC
- GIGABYTE GA-H77-D3H
Reported and tested by Alexander Gordeev on IRC.
- Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-August/009811.html
- Shuttle FN78S
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-August/009714.html
- VIA EITX-3000
Reported on IRC by Tuju
NOT OK:
- Dell PowerEdge C6220 (0HYFFG)
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-September/009900.html
- Foxconn Q45M
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-September/009923.html
- MSI MS-7309 (K9N6SGM-V)
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-August/009712.html
- Supermicro X9QRi-F+
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-September/009887.html
- ZOTAC H61-ITX WiFi (H61ITX-A-E)
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-August/009649.html
ASUS CUSL2-C has been tested to be working with the board enable once
implemented for the TUSL2-C board. They seem to have the same PCI IDs
as shown in the links below. Since only the CUSL2-C board enable has been
tested yet, we distinguish the two by DMI strings.
http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1393
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/attachments/20091206/ddca2c6c/attachment-0002.eml
Tested flash chips:
- Set EMST F25L008A to PREW (+PREW)
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-August/009714.html
- Set GigaDevice GD25Q64 to PREW (+PREW)
http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/third_party/flashrom.git;a=commit;h=9e8ef49b1f626c2197e131fba6c5b65c8af4eeea
- Set Macronix MX25L12805 to P (+P)
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-September/009887.html
- Set SST SST49LF003A/B to PREW (+EW)
http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=467
- Set Winbond W49V002FA to PREW (+EW)
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2011-January/005781.html
Tested chipsets:
- Intel X79 (0x1d41)
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-August/009811.html
Board enables:
- add ASUS P4P800-X
Created by Idwer Vollering and tested by Mingsen Bao:
http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=467
- add DMI string to P4P800-VM
Miscellaneous:
- Add remaining Intel 7 series chipset (LPC) PCI IDs
- Add generic SPI detection for chips from Winbond
- Minor manpage changes
- Minor other cleanups
- Escape full stops after abbreviations in the manpage.
- Add ICH9 and successors to spi_get_valid_read_addr
Corresponding to flashrom svn r1601.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
diff --git a/flashrom.8 b/flashrom.8
index cf07ccf..2519a78 100644
--- a/flashrom.8
+++ b/flashrom.8
@@ -291,8 +291,9 @@
.BR \-r )
and store it to a medium outside of your computer, like
a USB drive or a network share. If you needed to run the board enable code
-already for probing, use it for reading too. Now you can try to write the
-new image. You should enable the board enable code in any case now, as it
+already for probing, use it for reading too.
+If reading succeeds and the contens of the read file look legit you can try to write the new image.
+You should enable the board enable code in any case now, as it
has been written because it is known that writing/erasing without the board
enable is going to fail. In any case (success or failure), please report to
the flashrom mailing list, see below.
@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@
.B Intel chipsets
.sp
If you have an Intel chipset with an ICH8 or later southbridge with SPI flash
-attached, and if a valid descriptor was written to it (e.g. by the vendor), the
+attached, and if a valid descriptor was written to it (e.g.\& by the vendor), the
chipset provides an alternative way to access the flash chip(s) named
.BR "Hardware Sequencing" .
It is much simpler than the normal access method (called
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@
.BR auto ", " swseq " or " hwseq .
By default
.RB "(or when setting " ich_spi_mode=auto )
-the module tries to use swseq and only activates hwseq if need be (e.g. if
+the module tries to use swseq and only activates hwseq if need be (e.g.\& if
important opcodes are inaccessible due to lockdown; or if more than one flash
chip is attached). The other options (swseq, hwseq) select the respective mode
(if possible).
@@ -482,7 +483,7 @@
.sp
syntax where
.B size
-is the number of bytes (min. 1, max. 256).
+is the number of bytes (min.\& 1, max.\& 256).
.sp
Example:
.sp
@@ -498,7 +499,7 @@
syntax where
.B commandlist
is a list of two-digit hexadecimal representations of
-SPI commands. If commandlist is e.g. 0302, flashrom will behave as if the SPI
+SPI commands. If commandlist is e.g.\& 0302, flashrom will behave as if the SPI
controller refuses to run command 0x03 (READ) and command 0x02 (WRITE).
commandlist may be up to 512 characters (256 commands) long.
Implementation note: flashrom will detect an error during command execution.
@@ -514,7 +515,7 @@
syntax where
.B commandlist
is a list of two-digit hexadecimal representations of
-SPI commands. If commandlist is e.g. 0302, the emulated flash chip will ignore
+SPI commands. If commandlist is e.g.\& 0302, the emulated flash chip will ignore
command 0x03 (READ) and command 0x02 (WRITE). commandlist may be up to 512
characters (256 commands) long.
Implementation note: flashrom won't detect an error during command execution.
@@ -723,7 +724,7 @@
you want to use with the
.B pci=
parameter as explained in the
-.B nic3com
+.B nic3com et al.\&
section above.
.sp
More information about the hardware is available at
@@ -828,11 +829,11 @@
IRC channel on
.BR chat.freenode.net .
You are welcome to join and ask questions, send us bug and success reports there
-too. Please provide a way to contact you later (e.g. a mail address) and be
+too. Please provide a way to contact you later (e.g.\& a mail address) and be
patient if there is no immediate reaction. Also, we provide a pastebin service
at
.B http://paste.flashrom.org
-that is very useful when you want to share logs etc. without spamming the
+that is very useful when you want to share logs etc.\& without spamming the
channel.
.SS
.B Laptops
@@ -853,7 +854,7 @@
.sp
Some flash chips contain OTP memory often denoted as "security registers".
They usually have a capacity in the range of some bytes to a few hundred
-bytes and can be used to give devices unique IDs etc. flashrom is not able
+bytes and can be used to give devices unique IDs etc. flashrom is not able
to read or write these memories and may therefore not be able to duplicate a
chip completely. For chip types known to include OTP memories a warning is
printed when they are detected.