On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:09:45AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:04:54PM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote: > > I see that it's to initializes motherboard-specific flash enable > > sequence. However, the details is still too vague for me. > > Yeah, I think the idea is that if there is a lb_header, i.e. if > this machine already runs LinuxBIOS, flashrom can figure out > exactly which mainboard it is much more easily. For machines > running a proprietary BIOS, this is much more difficult - you have > to look at pci ids etc, and they are not always unique (vendors > like to reuse them....). > > This is just my 10,000 feet view, without actually looking at that > code ;)
Still spot on. If there is LB in flash already, the mainboard model and flash enable sequence is determined from that. Note that this needs an override with -m if the LB chip is being reflashed in a different board than it's intended to be used with. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
