On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:18:04 -0400 TR Reardon <[email protected]> wrote:
> cool, just tried and was enable to read the descriptor (64K) and then > the actual BIOS (6MB). I had to edit out the write-only check in > cli_classic.c, assumed that was relatively safe. I have no idea what you are talking about, sorry. > The --verify function doesn't work per se, but the files I was able to > extract using --read matched. I'd be interested in details... like logs ;) > The BIOS files mostly seem to match what is posted by ASUS online. > That is, other than configuration areas which I don't understand. I > assume that when a tool like BUPDATER from Asus reads a BIOS update > file, it doesn't simply overwrite the entire BIOS area? I mean, there > are quite a few 64KB configuration areas containing things like the > motherboard name. Or is this relatively safe to overwrite? Only ASUS knows. It might be completely save to overwrite such areas if the firmware initializes them with a default configuration... but I would not try that without a way to recover (e.g. external programmer... which should be easy in your case because the flash is socketed). -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
