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This allows flashrom to identify, read, write, erase and verify flash chips
on (some) 3COM network cards. The patch uses the external programmer
infrastructure, the network card is basically treated as an external
flash programmer.

Usage:

$ ./flashrom -p nic3com
flashrom v0.9.0-r498
Found NIC "3COM 3C905C: EtherLink 10/100 PCI (TX)" (10b7:9200), addr = 0xa400
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Atmel AT49BV512" (64 KB) at physical address 0xffff0000.
No operations were specified.

$ ./flashrom -p nic3com -E
flashrom v0.9.0-r498
Found NIC "3COM 3C905C: EtherLink 10/100 PCI (TX)" (10b7:9200), addr = 0xa400
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Atmel AT49BV512" (64 KB) at physical address 0xffff0000.
Erasing flash chip... SUCCESS.

$ ./flashrom -p nic3com -wv backup.bin
flashrom v0.9.0-r498
Found NIC "3COM 3C905C: EtherLink 10/100 PCI (TX)" (10b7:9200), addr = 0xa400
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Atmel AT49BV512" (64 KB) at physical address 0xffff0000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Programming page: 1023 at address: 0x0000ffc0
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

$ ./flashrom -p nic3com -r backup.bin
flashrom v0.9.0-r498
Found NIC "3COM 3C905C: EtherLink 10/100 PCI (TX)" (10b7:9200), addr = 0xa400
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Atmel AT49BV512" (64 KB) at physical address 0xffff0000.
Reading flash... done.

I have tested this on actual hardware (see PCI IDs above) and all
operations worked fine.

Support for other 3COM cards will follow (I added some more which should
be supportable by this code, but they're untested so far), as well as
support for NICs from other vendors.

The patch also adds support for the Atmel AT49BV512 which is soldered
onto the 3COM NIC I used for testing.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r499.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Mateusz Murawski <matowy@tlen.pl>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>