Hey Clay,
> On 14. Oct 2020, at 21:10, Clay Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think this patch may fix the same problem on my MSI X570 motherboard. I
> need some help in applying the patch. Although I installed Ubuntu when I got
> involved with Flashrom, etc., I am going to revert to trusty FreeBSD which
> has a user "port" to install flashrom, not as a binary large object (BLOB)
> but simply navigating to the port directory and doing "make install && make
> clean". Sometimes I see patches in the ports directory, but there is none in
> the current flashrom directory (yet). So I think I need to create a diff file
> from the text below named "patch-sb600spi.c", place it in the main
> /usr/ports/sysutils/flashrom directory, use "make makepatch", then "make
> install". I can use "make clean" afterwards if I like. Does this procedure
> sound like I'm on the right path? Any & all help appreciated
I’m not using BSD, maybe you need to add the patch to a Makefile or so.
In any case you need a newer git checkout, and you can simply build it anywhere
you want for a test with the patch applied.
It sounds like you might find my YT channel helpful, for were I do all this
OpenSource work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roSoKQWIJdE
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roSoKQWIJdE>
René
> Clay
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 1:26 AM Rene Rebe <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Added AMD Ryzen 3950x X570 and AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile PCI revisions
> to AMD FP4 / AM4 sb600spi.c.
>
> Trying to use flashrom to downgrade my Asus WS X570 ACE bios to a
> previous, more stable and performant version I just got this output:
>
> flashrom -p internal
> flashrom v1.2 on Linux 5.8.13-dist (x86_64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
> <https://flashrom.org/>
>
> Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
> Found chipset "AMD FP4".
> Enabling flash write... FCH device found but SMBus revision 0x61 does not
> match known values.
>
> So I patched mine and a friends MSI Modern 14 Ryzen 4700 laptop
> revisions in and we could both read the BIOS and I also tested
> flashing the Asus WS X570 ACE succesfully.
>
> Signed-of-by: René Rebe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
> diff --git a/sb600spi.c b/sb600spi.c
> index 5892d57..8a3c87d 100644
> --- a/sb600spi.c
> +++ b/sb600spi.c
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static int determine_generation(struct pci_dev *dev)
> if (rev == 0x4a) {
> amd_gen = CHIPSET_YANGTZE;
> msg_pdbg("Yangtze detected.\n");
> - } else if (rev == 0x4b) {
> + } else if (rev == 0x4b || rev == 0x51 || rev == 0x61) {
> amd_gen = CHIPSET_PROMONTORY;
> msg_pdbg("Promontory detected.\n");
> } else {
>
>
> --
> René Rebe, ExactCODE GmbH, Lietzenburger Str. 42, DE-10789 Berlin
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