January 2015 - flashrom - mail.coreboot.org

Intel Bay Trail read report
by Antonio Ospite Feb. 28, 2015

Feb. 28, 2015

Hi, I've got a Bay Trail tablet[1] and I tested flashrom on it, see the attached report. As reported in [1] I compiled flashrom statically on my host and then executed it under Android on the target. Reading the SPI flash works fine, is it safe enough to test writing too? I ask because accessing the SPI flash physically for external programming can be a little more inconvenient for a tablet. Another question: would it be possible to use flashrom to only reset the firmware _settings_, while leaving the code untouched? Thanks, Antonio [1] http://ao2.it/110 -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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[PATCH] Add programmer for the MSTAR I2C ISP protocol
by Alexandre Boeglin Feb. 8, 2015

Feb. 8, 2015

Hi, Here is a patch, that provides support for the MSTAR ISP protocol. Basically, among other chips, MSTAR manufactures SoCs that equip TV sets and computer screens, and it seems that all of their products use the same in-system programming protocol. Basically, they use the DDC channel of VGA or DVI connectors, which is actually an I2C bus, to encapsulate SPI frames (the flash chip is connected to the SoC through an SPI bus). I wrote this patch since the screen I bought had a software bug, and the manufacturer only released a new firmware binary, but no tool or instructions on flashing it. More details can be found here: http://boeglin.org/blog/index.php?entry=Flashing-a-BenQ-Z-series-for-free(d… I only read code from Linux kernel archives published by Acer to figure out the protocol (for a touchscreen controller and a NFC chip, both by MSTAR, that shared the same ISP protocol), so I don't think there are any legal problems with it. Please let me know what you think about this patch, and whether you're interested in including it. Best regards, Alex -- Alexandre Boeglin email: alex (at) boeglin (dot) org jabber: alex (at) im (dot) boeglin (dot) org website: http://boeglin.org/

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Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Add support for Spansion S25FL127S.
by Stefan Tauner Feb. 8, 2015

Feb. 8, 2015

On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 11:02:35 +0100 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > This flash chip can be configured (one time) to use 64 KiB or 256 KiB sectors. > Additionally, in the 64 KiB mode it supports 16 4 KiB sub-sectors that can be > (one time) programmed to be on the top or bottom of the device. The sub-sectors > can be erased with the 0x20 opcode but because this opcode does not work > with the remaining sectors and flashrom can not cope with that the 0x20 > opcode is not supported yet. > > This patch adds two definitions, one for the 64 KiB and 256 KiB configuration > respectively. The device also shares the RDID with the various S25FL128 > devices so we have to increase the maximum number of successfully probed > chips to 8. > > The 64 KiB mode was tested on real hardware. > > Signed-off-by: Jernej Škrabec <jernej.skrabec(a)planet.si> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> I have committed this patch in r1858 because Jernej told me that he *currently* is unable to test the patch on real hardware. Since the modifications were minor there shouldn't be any issues though. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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Re: [flashrom] [PATCH 2/3] Add support for SPARC (maybe).
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

On 19.01.2015 21:39, Stefan Tauner wrote: > Does (cross-)compile but is not run-tested. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> > Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> > --- > Makefile | 2 +- > hwaccess.h | 8 ++++++++ > platform.h | 5 ++++- > 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) hwaccess.c needs to be patched as well. Specifically, static inline void sync_primitive(void) needs either a comment why sync_primitive is unneeded or a a code snippet with correct code. Not sure if I read http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/sparc/include/asm/barrier_64.h#L47 correctly, but we may need __asm__ __volatile__("membar #StoreLoad":::"memory") Mh. That might not be needed if /dev/mem uses a special access mode which enforces memory access ordering in Sparc. Someone else with Sparc knowledge needs to check this. That said, the patch looks correct apart from the missing hwaccess.c stuff mentioned above. Regards, Carl-Daniel

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Test-Results for "Pm25LV512(A)"
by The Raven Feb. 4, 2015

Feb. 4, 2015

Hello :-) Here are the results for this chip. Tested with Arduino (serprog). Probing: OK Reading: OK Erasing: OK Writing: OK The writing (sign) on the Chip is: Pm25LV512 AE1034 M23360LG Should i test something else? BTW: This chip was found on a "newer" nvidia graphic card (GF108 / Gforce GT430 / 1GB Ram).

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FOSDEM 2015
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Jan. 29, 2015

Jan. 29, 2015

Hi everyone! 31 Jan 2015 and 1 Feb 2015: https://fosdem.org/2015/news/2014-09-19-call-for-participation-part-two/ I would love to be there again and some of you already said they'd try to be there, but I forgot who. Who can be there with me at the booth and when can you be there? A preliminary stand application has already been sent by me to somewhat hit the deadline, but I'd like to fill it in a bit more. Side note: If someone has an interesting topic for a lightning talk, please submit one! Regards, Carl-Daniel

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Can ft2232_spi mode give access to GPIO bits?
by Phillip Vallejo Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

In using the FT2232H chip in MPSSE with SPI there are many GPIO bits on other pins. I have 2 questions about flashrom with ft2232_spi mode: 1. Is there access through flashrom to those GPIO bits? (if so, where is the description?) 2. If not, If I use a different program before flashrom to set GPIO bits, will flashrom reset GPIO bits to a particular state? Thanks, -Phil

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Re: [flashrom] Searching Archives
by Stefan Tauner Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:22:27 +0000 Phillip Vallejo <pvallejo(a)pacificbiosciences.com> wrote: > Perhaps this is a newbie question, but before posting my real question with flashrom I wanted to search the Archives. What is the best way to search the flashrom mail list Archives? Hi, probably "site:flashrom.org/pipermail <search terms>" in your favorite search engine. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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[commit] r1873 - trunk
by repository service Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

Author: stefanct Date: Mon Jan 26 00:42:57 2015 New Revision: 1873 URL: http://flashrom.org/trac/flashrom/changeset/1873 Log: ftdi2232_spi: revert usage of DIS_DIV_5 macro. In r1872 we replaced some magic values with constant macros from ftdi.h. Among them was DIS_DIV_5 that represents the opcode that disables the use of the 5x prescaler on newer devices. Unfortunately this macro was only introduced with support for FT232H and hence is not available in older versions of the library. Revert back to using the magic constant. Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)student.tuwien.ac.at> Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> Modified: trunk/ft2232_spi.c Modified: trunk/ft2232_spi.c ============================================================================== --- trunk/ft2232_spi.c Sun Jan 25 04:52:47 2015 (r1872) +++ trunk/ft2232_spi.c Mon Jan 26 00:42:57 2015 (r1873) @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ if (clock_5x) { msg_pdbg("Disable divide-by-5 front stage\n"); - buf[0] = DIS_DIV_5; + buf[0] = 0x8a; /* Disable divide-by-5. DIS_DIV_5 in newer libftdi */ if (send_buf(ftdic, buf, 1)) { ret = -5; goto ftdi_err;

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Searching Archives
by Phillip Vallejo Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

Perhaps this is a newbie question, but before posting my real question with flashrom I wanted to search the Archives. What is the best way to search the flashrom mail list Archives? Thanks, -Phil

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