February 2014 - flashrom - mail.coreboot.org

New motherboard for supported HW list
by Jeff O'Neil Feb. 3, 2014

Feb. 3, 2014

Reporting a successful bios flash for motherboard GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3 Flashrom reports as multiple different chips, visual inspection shows mine to be "MX25L6406E" All went smooth, excellent work guys! Much respect! Put outputs into pastebin so I don't have too much clutter. Outputs: flashrom -p internal -V http://pastebin.com/csEisq2j lspci *-nnvvxxx* http://pastebin.com/HXuKAw6t superiotool -deV http://pastebin.com/M0rUrhXZ

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Issues recognizing Macronics 25L3205D using UM232H-B-WE
by Jay Khan Feb. 3, 2014

Feb. 3, 2014

Hello, I am trying to get the Macronics Flash MX25L3205D using FTDI UM232H-B-WE with Flashrom 0.9.7-r1764 on lunux. The programmer UM232H seems to be supported based on http://flashrom.org/Supported_programmers The flash MX25L3205D seems to be supported based on: http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware (MX datasheet: http://www.macronix.com/Lists/DataSheet/Attachments/1534/MX25L6405D,%203V,%…) I have the following pins connected using the following mapping and connected the MX flash using test clip: UM232H Mapping Macronics (25L3205D) D0->SPI_SK 6 D1->SPI_DO 2 D2->SPI_DI 5 D3->SPI_CS 1 D4->SPI_WP 3 D5->SPI_HOLD 7 GND 4 VCC 8 (3.13v) When I use flashrom with command line: flashrom -p ft2232_spi:type232H, flashrom replies with "Found Generic flash chip "unknown SPI chip (RDID)" (0 kB, SPI) on ft2232_spi. Unsupported etc...... It is my understanding that the 25L3205D is supported and I am not sure why I would get this message. Any pointers would be very helpful. Thanks!

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Re: [flashrom] Trouble disabling write-protection on Chromebook
by BM-2cWKH3wgq8zXX9eHfba16oTc8b61ead4Yq＠bitmessage.ch Jan. 31, 2014

Jan. 31, 2014

The issue here turned out to be that I was not scrubbing the write-protect screw hole enough. I had to take the board out and scrub the screw hole with rubbing alcohol in order to get enough traction to clean the gunk I wasn't seeing. I had been scrubbing the board while leaving it in the case; apparently that wasn't enough. I finally got a success on flashrom --wp-disable after the fifth or sixth time cleaning. Thanks for the help!

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