On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:36 PM Angel Pons <th3fan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list, > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:07 PM Clay Daniels <clay.daniels...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Congrats, Aspen. I have a MSI X570-A PRO (MS-7C37) Motherboard and > trying to get flashrom v1.2 on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT to recognize my mb. > Looking at the supported hardware at > https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware I don't see my mb NOR yours > either. Give me a little more detail on how you made this happen on a > fairly recent MSI mb like ours. (On or off list). > > While both mainboards are new, they're night and day. The MSI > Z370-A-PRO is an Intel platform, whereas the MSI X570-A PRO is an AMD > platform. > > One of the main use-cases of flashrom is to rewrite the boot firmware > (BIOS, UEFI, coreboot...), and flashrom is often used to flash > coreboot onto things. What's more, coreboot and flashrom use the same > review infrastructure [1], so it's easy for coreboot developers to > contribute to flashrom. There's coreboot support for Intel Coffee > Lake, but not for AMD Zen stuff; and flashrom support is in a similar > situation. > > I know there's some patches that enable support floating around. > However, I don't think anyone pushed anything for review (if so, I > must have missed it). There might be something in the GitHub pull > requests, but I haven't checked. Since the GitHub repo is a mirror, > it's not possible to accept pull requests through it, and transferring > the PRs to Gerrit isn't trivial because of the sign-off requirement > [2]. Yes, that page also mentions using GitHub, but it then says that > one should use Gerrit instead. Maybe I'll rewrite that part at some > point. > > [1]: https://review.coreboot.org > [2]: https://flashrom.org/Development_Guidelines#Sign-off_Procedure Angel, thanks for the useful info. I'm still trying to wrap my head around flashrom & coreboot and appreciate your response. Clay
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