[flashrom] Remove board enable for Asus P5A.
Uwe Hermann
uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Fri Oct 23 13:38:39 CEST 2009
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 05:43:50PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> A first: removal of what might be a working board enable still.
>
> Long story short; it's horrible and i do not want to spend any time on
> cleaning it up. We have better things to do.
No reason to remove it though.
> Asus P5A was a very popular supersocket7 board more than a decade ago. I'm
> sure that some people still have some working examples around, but they are
> getting less and less common. I think that i am pretty much the only one
> around still who would try to use flashrom for this board.
Sorry to disappoint you, I have a P5A and also a P5A-B actually :)
> There's an io line from the Asus AS61256-8 chip to the WP on the flash. But
> there is no info on this chip. We are using SMBUS on the ALI chip, and while
> this routine here could be improved a lot, what is the point?
>
> Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be>
NACK, sorry. I'm fine with improving the code if possible, but dropping
a working board-enable for no real reason is a no-go.
Uwe.
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