<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello,</font><br><tt><font size=2><br><i>I presume you did not try to write to that board yet. Because you left<br>out the laptop force switch on the second, verbose run, there is a lot<br>of information missing, but i think it would be safe to try writing to<br>it in general anyway (and if you need to e.g. update the firmware). It<br>could be that there is a write protection though, but flashrom would<br>show us that if you try erasing/writing and there is a write protection<br>active.</i></font></tt><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Yes I have not tried to write, yet but
I can do it without any problems, because I have Willem programmer, and
have ability to de/resolder the flash.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I will flash it and let you know the
result and the outputs. </font><br><br><tt><font size=2><i>By testing do you mean that you have also tried
writing or just<br>probing/reading? On most flash chips flashrom can not tell if it is<br>write protected or not, one has to try.<br><br>The general policy to add a board to our supported list is therefore a<br>log that shows a legit write. Please note that this requires<br>verbose output, because only then flashrom shows what it really does.<br>Without that you would not see if flashrom skips the whole erase/write<br>process because the flash chip content is equal to the image file.<br><br>The question is though if it makes sense to include PXI controllers<br>that (please forgive me :) are not very common. But if you want to do<br>the testing i can add them of course.</i></font></tt><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Personally I have tried to reflash one
of our PIXe-8106 controllers, and it had been flashed fine, and the BIOS
revision had been also updated.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have access to all of our products
for trying out BIOS upgrade on it even if some would be unsuccessful, I
can replace/reflash using external programmer.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Well I know that the PXI systems are
not very common things. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Right now we are using different platforms
for the Functional Verification Test in the manufacturing.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Some older controllers are still flashed
under MS-DOS, the newer ones under Windows. </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It would be great for us if we could
have an uniform preferably Linux based platform for flashing the BIOS images
during the manufacturing process.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If it is not a problem/a lot work for
you I would like to test our product's flashrom compatibility and send
you the logs one-by-one to get them officially supported. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thank you for your help!</font><br><br><font size=1 face="Verdana"><b>Regards,<br>Miklós Márton |</b> Test Engineer / NIH Test Development <b>| </b>Tel:
+36-30-521-1052 <b>| </b></font><a href=http://www.ni.com/debrecen><font size=1 color=blue><u>NI
Hungary Kft</u></font></a><br><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Miklos Marton"
<miklos.marton@ni.com></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">flashrom@flashrom.org</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">2012.10.31 11:57</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [flashrom]
W836xx:NI 8351 (rebranded MSI MS-9218) flashrom -V</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:22:15 +0100<br>"Miklos Marton" <miklos.marton@ni.com> wrote:<br><br>Hello Miklos and thanks for your report!<br><br>I presume you did not try to write to that board yet. Because you left<br>out the laptop force switch on the second, verbose run, there is a lot<br>of information missing, but i think it would be safe to try writing to<br>it in general anyway (and if you need to e.g. update the firmware). It<br>could be that there is a write protection though, but flashrom would<br>show us that if you try erasing/writing and there is a write protection<br>active.<br><br>> Our company is manufacturing a wide range of embedded x86 based PXI
<br>> controllers. I have checked some, and most of them was worked with
the <br>> flashrom after specifying the this_is_not_a_laptop switch. <br>> What kind of information do you need to get them officaly verified
and <br>> supported?<br><br>By testing do you mean that you have also tried writing or just<br>probing/reading? On most flash chips flashrom can not tell if it is<br>write protected or not, one has to try.<br><br>The general policy to add a board to our supported list is therefore a<br>log that shows a legit write. Please note that this requires<br>verbose output, because only then flashrom shows what it really does.<br>Without that you would not see if flashrom skips the whole erase/write<br>process because the flash chip content is equal to the image file.<br><br>The question is though if it makes sense to include PXI controllers<br>that (please forgive me :) are not very common. But if you want to do<br>the testing i can add them of course.<br><br>BTW the laptop force switch depends on the DMI chassis information. If<br>your firmware engineers would use something else than "Other"
(or one<br>of the laptop/mobile values) you would not need to specify it.<br>-- <br>Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner<br></font></tt><br><BR>
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