[flashrom] [PATCH] board enable for DFI AD77

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:53:24 +0200
Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:12:40AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 May 2011 19:27:49 +0300
> > Tadas Slotkus <devtadas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Could someone review?
> > 
> > hey
> > 
> > the url should link to the manufacturer's site if possible e.g.
> > http://dfics.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=1010&CATEGORY_TYPE=MB&SITE=US
> > 
> > you have used the pciids of the generic VT8377 host bridge and the
> > audio controller. the audio controller is the only device with a DFI
> > subsystem id, but it can probably be disabled in the bios and then it
> > does not match...
> > since we can (and you patch does) use dmi matching anyway i think we
> > should use (for example) the isa bridge instead of the audio controller.
> > also we could mark it as tested if we match ^AD77$ instead of ^AD77.
> 
> A few more comments:
> 
> Tadas, could you please re-run your lspci as "lspci -xxxnnnvvv" as root,
> the current one is missing the full info.
> 
> Also, did you try a write/erase operation on the board/chip? Without a
> successful write operation we cannot mark the board/chip as supported,
> reading alone is not enough unfortunately.
> 
> Please post write logs (-w -VV) and the lspci mentioned above, if possible.

I have committed a refined version in r1581.
It uses the generic PCI IDs and therefore requires manual activation
via -p internal:mainboard=…
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner