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Move untested board enable documentation to manpage

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This also checks the testedness of boards in all cases, not just for
PCI/DMI detection.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r926.

Signed-off-by: Michael Karcher <flashrom@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
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Michael Karcher
2010-03-07 22:29:28 +00:00
parent 5fdf270450
commit 7f0c3ec56b
2 changed files with 58 additions and 24 deletions
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@ -1425,30 +1425,6 @@ static struct board_pciid_enable *board_match_pci_card_ids(void)
}
}
if (board->status == NT) {
if (!force_boardenable)
{
printf("WARNING: Your mainboard is %s %s, but the mainboard-specific\n"
"code has not been marked as working. To help flashrom development, please\n"
"test flashrom on your board. As the code to support your board is untested,\n"
"we strongly recommend that as an additional safety measure you make\n"
"store backup of your current ROM contents (obtained by flashrom -r) on\n"
"a medium that can be accessed from a different computer (like an USB\n"
"drive or a network share of another system) before you try to erase or\n"
"write.\n"
"The untested code does not run unless you specify the\n"
" \"-p internal:boardenable=force\" command line option. Depending on your\n"
"hardware environment, erasing, writing or even probing can fail without\n"
"running the board specific code. Running the board-specific code might\n"
"cause your computer to behave erratically if it is wrong.\n"
"Please report the results of running the board enable code to\n"
"flashrom@flashrom.org.\n",
board->vendor_name, board->board_name);
continue;
}
printf("NOTE: Running an untested board enable procedure.\n"
"Please report success/failure to flashrom@flashrom.org\n");
}
return board;
}
@ -1466,6 +1442,23 @@ int board_flash_enable(const char *vendor, const char *part)
if (!board)
board = board_match_pci_card_ids();
if (board->status == NT) {
if (!force_boardenable)
{
printf("WARNING: Your mainboard is %s %s, but the mainboard-specific\n"
"code has not been tested, and thus will not not be executed by default.\n"
"Depending on your hardware environment, erasing, writing or even probing\n"
"can fail without running the board specific code.\n\n"
"Please see the man page (section PROGRAMMER SPECIFIC INFO, subsection\n"
"\"internal programmer\") for details\n",
board->vendor_name, board->board_name);
board = NULL;
}
else
printf("NOTE: Running an untested board enable procedure.\n"
"Please report success/failure to flashrom@flashrom.org\n");
}
if (board) {
if (board->max_rom_decode_parallel)
max_rom_decode.parallel =