November 2020 - flashrom - mail.coreboot.org

FAILED: <Asrock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac>
by Iago Barreto Nov. 19, 2020

Nov. 19, 2020

Hi, need some help: tried to flash modded bios through flashrom on Linux Mint and got a fail... Thanks in advance, Iago Barreto

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using flashrom on supermicro board X11SSZ-TLN4F
by Kurt Jaeger Nov. 18, 2020

Nov. 18, 2020

Hi! We've tried to install a new BIOS for a X11SSZ-TLN4F mainboard from supermicro. It can not be flashed using flashrom -- and says I should send you a -V output. Here's the -V: # flashrom -V -w X11SSZ0.602 -p internal flashrom v1.2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE (amd64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org flashrom was built with libpci 3.7.0, LLVM Clang 10.0.1 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-10.0.1-0-gef32c611aa2), little endian Command line (5 args): flashrom -V -w X11SSZ0.602 -p internal Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 4, resolution: 1ns). Initializing internal programmer No coreboot table found. Using Internal DMI decoder. DMI string chassis-type: "Main Server Chassis" DMI string system-manufacturer: "Supermicro" DMI string system-product-name: "Super Server" DMI string system-version: "0123456789" DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Supermicro" DMI string baseboard-product-name: "X11SSZ-TLN4F" DMI string baseboard-version: "1.10" Found chipset "Intel C236" with PCI ID 8086:a149. This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it, then please email a report to flashrom(a)flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log. Thank you! Enabling flash write... pcilib: This access method is not supported. -- MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger Now what ? Dr.-Ing. Nepustil & Co. GmbH fon +49 7123 93006-0 pi(a)nepustil.net Rathausstr. 3 mob +49 171 3101372 72658 Bempflingen

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Info for W25Q16BVSSIG
by Berké Durak Nov. 16, 2020

Nov. 16, 2020

Hi, This is the flashrom -VV output for the W25Q16BVSSIG chip as found on the Olimex iCE40HX8K-EVB evaluation board. From the Debian flashrom 1.0-1 armhf on the SPI pins of a Beaglebone Black, with the command : flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=10000 -VV >flashrom.info -- Berké Durak, Ph.D ExH R&D

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Question about chipset "Intel C60x/X79"
by dac9＠emailportal.ch Nov. 15, 2020

Nov. 15, 2020

Hello guys Thanks for the great work on flashrom. I run flashrom with the "internal" programmer on HP-z420 and I've get the following message: ********************************************************************** Found chipset "Intel C60x/X79" with PCI ID 8086:1d41. ... Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q128.V" (16384 kB, SPI). This chip may contain one-time programmable memory. flashrom cannot read and may never be able to write it, hence it may not be able to completely clone the contents of this chip (see man page for details). ********************************************************************** For more information please check the log-file in annex. Could you please say me if I really have no chance to replace this BIOS with flashrom and coreboot? Or maybe I can use an external programmer with a SOIC-CLIP? Thanks in advance Best regards Dario

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Untested chipset "Intel Q67"
by dac9＠emailportal.ch Nov. 15, 2020

Nov. 15, 2020

Hello guys Thanks for the great work on flashrom. I use it recently and I've get the following message: ********************************************************* Found chipset "Intel Q67" with PCI ID 8086:1c4e. This chipset is marked as untested. ... please email a report to flashrom(a)flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log. ********************************************************* And so I did. Please check the log-file in annex. Best regards Dario

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Supported mainboard report
by theonlykw259 Nov. 14, 2020

Nov. 14, 2020

Hello, I wanted to report that the ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 is supported, I was successfully able to dump the firmware, as well as write modified firmware back to it.

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failed flashing ROM on a Dell E7270
by Richard Horsch Nov. 9, 2020

Nov. 9, 2020

Dear all, I miss-flashed my BIOS on a Dell Latitude E7270 somehow. So I tried to reflash the chip with flashrom, but it faild. I was asked to report this to you. The terminal tells me following: " flashrom v1.2 on Linux 5.4.0-52-generic (x86_64) Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). Found GigaDevice flash chip "GD25Q127C/GD25Q128C" (16384 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... FAILED at 0x00f5d000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x40, failed byte count from 0x00f5d000-0x00f5dfff: 0x1000 ERASE FAILED! Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function. FAILED at 0x00000010! Expected=0xff, Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00007fff: 0x4732 ERASE FAILED! Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function. Erase/write done. Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x0008b500! Expected=0xda, Found=0xff, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00ffffff: 0xf0137 Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or mail flashrom(a)flashrom.org, thanks! " Is there anything, what could be done further? Thanks and kind regards, Richard -- Richard Horsch Christian-Steiner-Str. 9 63762 Großostheim Tel.: +49 6026 949 3820 Mob.: +49 179 144 8160 Fax.: +49 6026 949 3821

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Successful Flashrom Install - Thanks to all!
by Clay Daniels Nov. 9, 2020

Nov. 9, 2020

All the pieces finally came together. I made a fresh install of Ubuntu, installed all the needed tools. cloned flashrom, modified sb600spi.c per Rene's patch to include my AMD X570 "0x61" spi, did a make install, and it works! root@clay-MS-7C37:~# flashrom -p internal flashrom v1.2-135-g07edbb9-dirty on Linux 5.8.0-26-generic (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). Found chipset "AMD FP4". Enabling flash write... Warning: spireadmode not set, leaving spireadmode unchanged.Warning: spispeed not set, leaving spispeed unchanged.OK. Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q256.W" (32768 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000fe000000. No operations were specified. root@clay-MS-7C37:~# Thanks to everyone, Clay (Boot_Dawg)

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BIOS update for Dell Optiplex 7010
by D H Nov. 6, 2020

Nov. 6, 2020

Hello, Below is the output I got when trying to update my BIOS. I use MX Linux, I don't have Windows. I wonder whether an update is possible at all...? Thanks for your help, much appreciated. Best. Rob flashrom was built with libpci 3.5.2, GCC 8.2.0, little endian Command line (3 args): flashrom --programmer internal -V Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). Initializing internal programmer No coreboot table found. Using Internal DMI decoder. DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop" DMI string system-manufacturer: "Dell Inc." DMI string system-product-name: "OptiPlex 7010" DMI string system-version: "01" DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Dell Inc." DMI string baseboard-product-name: "0773VG" DMI string baseboard-version: "A00" Found chipset "Intel Q77" with PCI ID 8086:1e47. This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it, then please email a report to flashrom(a)flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log. Thank you! Enabling flash write... Root Complex Register Block address = 0xfed1c000 Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000fed1c000 /dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted FAILED! FATAL ERROR! Error: Programmer initialization failed.

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Bios Update on Legacy Dell Server
by Robert M Peacock Nov. 6, 2020

Nov. 6, 2020

Hi, Trying to update BIOS. I have Linux Mint running on a Dell PE SE430 server (c 2006). Tried a number of options provided by Dell. None of them have worked. FreeDOS didn't work. System garbled when grub tried to load it (via usb and dvd, legacy and usb versions). Chipset is Intel e7530 and current processor is Pentium D 2.8 ghz, which I hope to update shortly. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Robert

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