[flashrom] [Patch] Boards: Remove it8705_rom_write_enable.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi,

On 13.01.2010 12:33, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:14:02PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:19:28PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>>     
>>> >From 357cbdbc7b3be6a6b685e73f723e6b5cf147bc19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be>
>>> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:45:35 +0100
>>> Subject: [PATCH] Boards: Remove it8705_rom_write_enable.
>>>
>>> Should be functionally the same as it8705f_write_enable_2e.
>>>       
>> Yep, except for the "Configuration Select" (bit 7) in reg 0x22, but I
>> think we need a way to handle that better anyway (which would be an
>> additional patch), so:
>>
>> Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
>>
>> As the default for this bit is 0 and the flashrom code set it to 1 we
>> should probably trace back which board originally used this code. That
>> one possibly did have two Super I/Os and needed to have one of them
>> selected explicitly (?)
>>
>>
>> Uwe.
>>     
>
> First of all, thanks for looking into this.
>
> Secondly, this patch sadly depends on another patch which at least ties 
> the max rom decode to boards directly instead of doing this through the 
> board enable (which, amongst others, ruins our ability to sanitise board 
> enables).
>
> Thirdly, the original board enable was written by Peter as part of r256 
> (originally r3364) dated June 11th 2008:
>
>     flashrom: Board enable and autodetection for BioStar P4M80-M4.
>     
>     Thanks to Reinder for clean room reverse engineering and data sheet diving!    
>
>     This board is autodetected because there are some good BioStar 
>     subsystem IDs.
>     Matching uses onboard VT6420 SATA RAID with subsystem BioStar 3206 and
>     onboard UniChrome Pro IGP graphics with subsystem BioStar 1202.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>
>     Acked-by: Lyos Gemini Norezel <lyos.gemininorezel at gmail.com>
>
> CCed Peter so he can shed a bit more light on this, in as far as he 
> still has a recollection of this, as it's been some 550 commits ago :)
>   

CCed Reinder (I hope his email address is still valid).

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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