April 2020 - flashrom - mail.coreboot.org

flashrom on NetBSD 8 and apu2?
by Greg Troxel April 3, 2021

April 3, 2021

I have a PC Engines apu2d4 running NetBSD 8 (amd64), and would like to update coreboot/etc. on it. I searched the list (perhaps not well) and didn't find any reports of success, although I realize things are generally expected to work so success might well go unreported. I am using flashrom 1.1 as built from pkgsrc. I was able to read the existing bios without issues as: flashrom --programmer internal -r 20200301-readflash.rom Before I try to write, I am wondering if anyone has successfully done an apu2 bios update with flashrom under NetBSD 8 amd64? (I have a debricking adaptor (spi1a) and will prepare a Linux flashing image on USB before trying myself, whether I not a get a report of success.) Thanks, Greg

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Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W?
by Wu, Amin May 7, 2020

May 7, 2020

[AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] Hi Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? Thanks BR AMIN

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ST 95XXX chips
by Николай Николаев May 2, 2020

May 2, 2020

Hello My pull request has already been created that had occurred *several months* previously. I added support for ST 95XXX chips . The following chipsets have been successfully tested for read, erase and write operations: ST [ 95080, 95160, 95320, 95640, 95128, 95256 ]. I would like to discuss a new features. Maybe someone in the community will spent a bit of time and review my pull request. Don't worry about the conflicting files. The part of the code has already been merged into effect. *I'm open-minded and ready. *

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erasing MX25L12873F
by Luiz Felipe April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020

Hello, Firstly, thanks for the program. I followed the following thread and got the same results when trying to write, I can find the chip, it respond to commands, but fail to erase. https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/flashrom/2018-January/015330.htm What I have tried is powering the chip from motherboard and the PI from it to avoid ground loops.

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W25Q256JWEQ 1.8V
by Nicklas Lennert April 27, 2020

April 27, 2020

Hi. I'm trying to flash bios to a motherboard MSI B450M-A PRO MAX. I have connected to the "new type" JSPI1 connectors. Think i have a connection to the chip, but its not listed on your chip list. Gets a response only once every time i power up the chip. I use a CH341A PRO programmer with a 1.8V converter. Then connected wires directly to the motherboard. No unsoldering. Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS https://www.winbond.com/resource-files/w25q256jw%20spi%20revb%2012082017.pdf https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=322528.0 - Connected by this diagram Can you help me? Best regards Nicklas Lennert Denmark

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fails to detect rom chip from CIPC-GC13H(GK7102S) webcam
by Mark Starikov April 21, 2020

April 21, 2020

Dear flashrom team, I'm trying to reflash chip on a webcam that failed firmware upgrade. I have desoldered chip from the board and hooked it up to pi 2B. I've tried to follow instructions here https://www.rototron.info/recover-bricked-bios-using-flashrom-on-a-raspberr…. I can see the chip now(didn't work at all while on the board) on spi but it fails to identify or read it. pi@raspberrypi:~/flashrom $ ./flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=2000 -r bricked.bin flashrom v1.2-27-ga25c13c on Linux 4.19.66-v7+ (armv7l) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). Found ST flash chip "unknown ST SPI chip" (0 kB, SPI) on linux_spi. === This flash part has status NOT WORKING for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version, please email a report to flashrom(a)flashrom.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line. Thanks for your help! Read is not working on this chip. Aborting. -VVV and -r outputs attached. As per message sending console output through. Please let me know if you need any additional information while it is still hooked up to breadboard. Kind regards, Mark S.

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I can't write in this motherboard
by Fabrício Ceolin April 20, 2020

April 20, 2020

Hi, I am trying to use flashrom to write a BIOS and I'm getting the error below. Using afuwin64.exe is possible to update the BIOS. See the attachment to more information. root@14_101_31_142:/tmp# /root/flashrom/flashrom -p internal -w /tmp/new_bios.img flashrom v1.2-27-ga25c13c on Linux 4.13.0-38-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 "Intel Q75". Enabling flash write... Warning: Setting Bios Control at 0xdc from 0x0a to 0x09 failed. New value is 0x0a. SPI Configuration is locked down. OK. Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q32.V" (4096 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ffc00000. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... Transaction error! spi_write_cmd failed during command execution at address 0x1a0000 Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function. spi_write_cmd failed during command execution at address 0x1a0000 Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function. spi_write_cmd failed during command execution at address 0x1a0000 Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function. spi_simple_write_cmd failed during command execution Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function. spi_simple_write_cmd failed during command execution Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. No usable erase functions left. FAILED! Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed. Reading current flash chip contents... done. Good, writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything. This means we have to add special support for your board, programmer or flash chip. Please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or mail flashrom(a)flashrom.org, thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may now reboot or simply leave the machine running. Thanks -- Fabrício Ceolin ulevel.com Diretor Executivo

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Tested A25L080 with arduino uno (frser-duino)
by Ben R April 18, 2020

April 18, 2020

I have tested and got every operation working with the A25L080 and a arduino uno programmer attached is the log, but i copied the same rom 2x so thats why it says their identical If you need more info feel free to reply bacl

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question about winbond 25q128 bios flashing
by 小蒋 April 18, 2020

April 18, 2020

Dear sir I am a hardware enthusiast try to modify my motherboard's bios, cause after mmtool modify the rom's se data been corrupted so I can't flash it by bios app or afwin or other tools that use to flashing official bios. so I installed ubuntu 16.04 server version, and sudo apt-get install flashrom.  the motherboard I use is an X299 motherboard with winbond 25Q128JVSQ bios chip now I am running flash -p internal it shows as follows: jiang@ubuntu:~$ sudo flashrom -p internal flashrom v0.9.9-rc1-r1942 on Linux 4.4.0-131-generic (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... OK. WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail. No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically. guess it cant recognize the chip on my motherboard. so in this condition, is there anyway to use flashrom writing my modified bios to mother board? Thanks in advance!

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Mercedes NEC chin en SiO chip
by Steve De Beukelaer April 18, 2020

April 18, 2020

Hi I have a question does flahrom support mercedes NEC chips and Sio chips such as ite kb9012 , ene 8052 etc Many thanks Regards Steve

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