Support for nVidia chipsets in flashrom

[biosflasher]

OK, latest flashrom from subversion will now spit out a boatload of debug information for pretty much every Nvidia chipset after nForce 5. You have to run "flashrom -V" (verbose mode) to get all the info.

While this doesn't mean you already get SPI support on those chipsets, it _does_ give us flashrom developers the information we need to proceed.

[biosflasher]

I forgot to mention that there is no need for patching. Plain flashrom from subversion will spit out the reports we need.

By the way, this should also work on ION.

[biosflasher]

There is a patch which implements full support for all recent (well, last 4 years) Nvidia chipsets. It can be found at http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/1580/ . Please apply that patch, recompile, then run

flashrom -V

and post the output to [email protected] with subject "MCP SPI".
Testing should be reasonably safe, and so far we got 10 success reports. However, if you can't recover from a failed flash or if you panic easily, please don't test. If you encounter problems, use the flashrom mailing list or #flashrom IRC on irc.freenode.net to get assistance.