On 22.03.2007 15:24, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070322 15:22]:
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:16:42 +0100
>> Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> * Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070322 15:08]:
>>>> This is a structure found in every award bios image 
>>> A similar structure is found in ASUS branden bioses. Look at 
>>> ASUSBIOS.PAS in uniflash
>>      Feature of which could be possibly incorporated into flashrom, in order 
>> not to have stuck system while detecting flash-chip (on ASUS boards).
>  
> Yes. This should work. The one disadvantage is that it stops working as
> soon as you flashed linuxbios for the first time, because it does not
> provide that information. 
> 
> (Maybe it should, btw, when we want to save configuration stuff in a
> flash block?)

Why not use an extra utility for this (detect_flash_enable_strategy)?

# ./detect_flash_enable_strategy
Performing PCI and SuperIO config space dump 1...
Calling Flash enable hooks in proprietary BIOS....
Performing PCI and SuperIO config space dump 2...
Diffing dumps...
PCI config space byte 0x13 of device 00:1e.0 changed from 0x20 to 0x30
Please mail the above information with lspci -nv and a description
of your mainboard to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What do you think?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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