[flashrom] Detecting flash on P3B-F

[Stefan Tauner]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:59:39 -0500
Herb Radford <herbr at istop.com> wrote:

> I have 2 of these boards and want to try coreboot on them.
> I have a Willem Programmer which does not have the capability to
> recognize/burn the Mosel V29C51002T device on the board.
> So I tried flashrom-0.9.4. Well to my dismay, the motherboard was
> detected as an "Intel PIIX4/4E/4M" but cannot detect the flash device.
> Searching the mail archives tells me that this motherboard has not been
> tested but "May still work". I'm sorry to tell you that it doesn't.
> I can try to help with fixes but I'm not yet clear on how the flashrom
> software is structured.
> Any ideas?

hi there.

that board is somewhat special as that it needs some i2c communication
to let us access the flash chip AFAICS.
there was a patch in the works about a year ago[1], but i doubt this
will be ready soonish, sorry. if you want to work on this please start
from that patch and discuss your plans with us or ask question here or
on IRC.

1: http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/2034/
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner