[flashrom] [PATCH 5/7] warn if SMM BIOS Write Protection is detected in BIOS_CNTL
Stefan Tauner
stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Wed May 25 09:14:13 CEST 2011
On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:15:52 -0700
Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org> wrote:
> > + if (old& (5<< 1)) {
> > + msg_pinfo("WARNING: BIOS region SMM protection is enabled!\n");
> > + return -1;
> You might still be successful doing the write, in case the SMM handler
> does not enforce the protection, so maybe you should just print a
> warning but not return here?
ok
also:
1<<5 of course!
thanks joshua for reporting this
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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