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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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read_status_opaque called before register_opaque_master.
by Todd Broch June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020

Hello flashrom maintainers, I received the following warning, 'read_status_opaque called before register_opaque_master.' while using flashrom as part of the chromeos-firmwareupdate script. Full details below. Please let me know if you need more details. Best, Todd Broch -------------------- grep DESCRIP /etc/lsb-release #CHROMEOS_RELEASE_DESCRIPTION=13311.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel caroline test /usr/share/vboot/bin/make_dev_firmware.sh chromeos-firmwareupdate --mode=autoupdate Machine Model: caroline Write Protect: HW=0 SW=0 Last Boot Version: RO=Google_Caroline.7820.263.0 ACT/B=Google_Caroline.7820.286.0 Firmware Updater: RO=Google_Caroline.7820.300.0 RW=Google_Caroline.7820.384.0 >> Starting firmware updater. >> Target image: bios.bin (RO:Google_Caroline.7820.300.0, RW/A:Google_Caroline.7820.384.0, RW/B:Google_Caroline.7820.384.0). INFO: update_firmware: Loading current system firmware... >> Current system: /tmp/fwupdater.ecQBWI (RO:Google_Caroline.7820.263.0, RW/A:Google_Caroline.7820.263.0, RW/B:Google_Caroline.7820.286.0). >> Write protection: 0 (disabled; HW=0, SW=0). WARNING: update_firmware: RO changed and no WP. Need full update. >> FULL UPDATE: Updating whole firmware image(s), RO+RW. INFO: update_whole_firmware: Checking compatibility... INFO: host_flashrom: Executing: flashrom -w /tmp/fwupdater.u35SbM -p host flashrom v0.9.9 : c093d68c : Jun 26 2020 15:10:22 UTC on Linux 3.18.0-20514-g469972f7e001 (x86_64) flashrom v0.9.9 : c093d68c : Jun 26 2020 15:10:22 UTC on Linux 3.18.0-20514-g469972f7e001 (x86_64) Calibrating delay loop... OK. coreboot table found at 0x7aa4c000. Found chipset "Intel Skylake". Enabling flash write... WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. OK. Erasing and writing flash chip... Verifying flash... VERIFIED. SUCCESS INFO: host_flashrom: Executing: flashrom -w /tmp/fwupdater.OdguzF -p ec flashrom v0.9.9 : c093d68c : Jun 26 2020 15:10:22 UTC on Linux 3.18.0-20514-g469972f7e001 (x86_64) flashrom v0.9.9 : c093d68c : Jun 26 2020 15:10:22 UTC on Linux 3.18.0-20514-g469972f7e001 (x86_64) Calibrating delay loop... OK. coreboot table found at 0x7aa4c000. Found chipset "Intel Skylake". Enabling flash write... WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. OK. read_status_opaque called before register_opaque_master. Please report a bug at flashrom(a)flashrom.org Erasing and writing flash chip... Erasing and writing flash chip... Verifying flash... VERIFIED. SUCCESS INFO: host_flashrom: Executing: flashrom -w /tmp/fwupdater.ybATJ6 -p ec:type=pd flashrom v0.9.9 : c093d68c : Jun 26 2020 15:10:22 UTC on Linux 3.18.0-20514-g469972f7e001 (x86_64) flashrom v0.9.9 : c093d68c : Jun 26 2020 15:10:22 UTC on Linux 3.18.0-20514-g469972f7e001 (x86_64) Calibrating delay loop... OK. coreboot table found at 0x7aa4c000. Found chipset "Intel Skylake". Enabling flash write... WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. OK. read_status_opaque called before register_opaque_master. Please report a bug at flashrom(a)flashrom.org Erasing and writing flash chip... Erasing and writing flash chip... Verifying flash... VERIFIED. SUCCESS >> DONE: Firmware updater exits successfully.

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Re: Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W?
by kcshekar＠winbond.com June 19, 2020

June 19, 2020

Resending this message with datasheet links below https://www.winbond.com/resource-files/W25Q256JW%20SPI%20RevG%2011252019%20… https://www.winbond.com/resource-files/W25Q128JW_RevD_03132020%20Plus.pdf From: US00 Krishna Shekar Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:14 PM To: Mike Banon <mikebdp2(a)gmail.com> Cc: US40 Jack Lee <JLee2(a)winbond.com>; SM10 YLLi5 <YLLi5(a)winbond.com>; Wu, Amin <Amin.Wu(a)amd.com>; flashrom(a)flashrom.org Subject: RE: [flashrom] Re: Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? W25Q128FW and W25Q256FW are older products and have been replaced by the latest W25Q128JW and W25Q256JW serial flash products. These newer datasheets are publicly available on the Winbond web site www.winbond.com<http://www.winbond.com>. Please see these datasheets attached. Thanks. Regards, Shekar From: Mike Banon [mailto:mikebdp2@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:01 PM To: US00 Krishna Shekar <kcshekar(a)winbond.com<mailto:kcshekar@winbond.com>> Cc: US40 Jack Lee <JLee2(a)winbond.com<mailto:JLee2@winbond.com>>; SM10 YLLi5 <YLLi5(a)winbond.com<mailto:YLLi5@winbond.com>>; Wu, Amin <Amin.Wu(a)amd.com<mailto:Amin.Wu@amd.com>>; flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: Re: [flashrom] Re: Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? flashrom is really preferable: it's the open source (important!) software that supports a lot of programmers, including the inexpensive ones like CH341A which costs just $2. To add a support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256FW to flashrom - hopefully would be enough to create the correct chip definitions in flashchips.c / flashchips.h files using the datasheets for W25Q128FW and W25Q256FW. If these datasheets aren't publicly available yet, please provide them. On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:23 PM kcshekar(a)winbond.com<mailto:kcshekar@winbond.com> <kcshekar(a)winbond.com<mailto:kcshekar@winbond.com>> wrote: Hi Everyone, The latest part numbers I would recommend your using are W25Q128JWSSIQ or W25Q128JWEIQ (128Mb serial flash) and W25Q256JWEIQ (256Mb serial flash) on your designs. The part numbers mentioned below are old parts and the part numbers are incomplete. The part numbers I have mentioned are supported on the AMD Renoir reference boards, and in turn supports all the CPUs that AMD offers today. If you have further questions about support for AMD products, please contact Jason Hawken at AMD, Toronto. I am not sure if these are supported on Raspberry. Please take a look at the link below to look at the support provided by several programmer vendors for Winbond flash parts. https://www.winbond.com/resource-files/AN0000012%20CodeStorageMemoryProgram… I would recommend using Dediprog programmers - You are likely to find good support on Dediprog programmers for Winbond parts. If you already have the W25Q128FW and W25Q256FW parts with you now, they are supported on the Dediprog programmers as well. Trust this information is helpful. Let us know if you need any further help. Thanks. Regards, Shekar From: US40 Jack Lee Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 7:42 PM To: SM10 YLLi5 <YLLi5(a)winbond.com<mailto:YLLi5@winbond.com>>; Wu, Amin <Amin.Wu(a)amd.com<mailto:Amin.Wu@amd.com>>; US00 Krishna Shekar <kcshekar(a)winbond.com<mailto:kcshekar@winbond.com>> Cc: David Hendricks <david.hendricks(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.hendricks@gmail.com>>; flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: Re: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? Hi Shekar, Please help and feedback. Thx. Jack ________________________________ From: SM10 YLLi5 <YLLi5(a)winbond.com<mailto:YLLi5@winbond.com>> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 7:40 PM To: Wu, Amin; US40 Jack Lee Cc: David Hendricks; flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: FW: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? Hi Jack, Here we have the question below. do you mind to answer for this? Thanks. Do you have a plan to support flash bios for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W via flashrom in Raspberry? Regards, Yulia From: Wu, Amin [mailto:Amin.Wu@amd.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2020 10:38 AM To: SM10 YLLi5; David Hendricks Cc: flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: RE: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] Thanks David. I tried flashrom1.2 , W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W are not in the support list. I want use Raspberry only to flash W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W. Hi Yulia, Can you add W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W to flashrom support list to use Raspberry only? Thanks for your responding. BR AMIN From: Yulia Li <YLLi5(a)winbond.com<mailto:YLLi5@winbond.com>> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:22 AM To: David Hendricks <david.hendricks(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.hendricks@gmail.com>>; Wu, Amin <Amin.Wu(a)amd.com<mailto:Amin.Wu@amd.com>> Cc: flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: RE: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? [CAUTION: External Email] Hi Amin, Sorry for the late reply, do you still need any other support? Thanks. Regards, Yulia From: David Hendricks [mailto:david.hendricks@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:02 PM To: Wu, Amin Cc: AP A0PH mkt_online; flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: Re: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? Hi Amin, Please note that the W25Q128FW is a 1.8V chip, while Raspberry PI IOs are 3.3V. For Dediprog, pass in the `voltage` parameter, e.g. `flashrom -p dediprog:voltage=1.8 -r foo.bin` Also, as Mike mentioned it will help if we know the version of flashrom which you are trying to use. Some distributions provide very old versions. On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:33 AM Wu, Amin <Amin.Wu(a)amd.com<mailto:Amin.Wu@amd.com>> wrote: [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] Hi David Hendricks, “No EEPROM/flash device found” pop after I added below code to flashchips.c and flashchips.h to install flashrom in Raspberry 4B. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=4096 flashrom on Linux 4.19.57-v7l+ (armv7l) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflashrom.…> Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks 😊 flashchips.h #define WINBOND_NEX_W25Q128FW 0xef6018 /*W25Q128FW */ flashchips.c { .vendor = "Winbond", .name = "W25Q128FW", .bustype = BUS_SPI, .manufacture_id = WINBOND_NEX_ID, .model_id = WINBOND_NEX_W25Q128FW, .total_size = 16384, .page_size = 256, /* supports SFDP */ /* OTP: 1024B total, 256B reserved; read 0x48; write 0x42, erase 0x44, read ID 0x4B */ .feature_bits = FEATURE_WRSR_WREN | FEATURE_OTP | FEATURE_QPI, .tested = TEST_OK_PREW, .probe = probe_spi_rdid, .probe_timing = TIMING_ZERO, .block_erasers = { { .eraseblocks = { {4 * 1024, 4096} }, .block_erase = spi_block_erase_20, }, { .eraseblocks = { {32 * 1024, 512} }, .block_erase = spi_block_erase_52, }, { .eraseblocks = { {64 * 1024, 256} }, .block_erase = spi_block_erase_d8, }, { .eraseblocks = { {16 * 1024 * 1024, 1} }, .block_erase = spi_block_erase_60, }, { .eraseblocks = { {16 * 1024 * 1024, 1} }, .block_erase = spi_block_erase_c7, } }, .printlock = spi_prettyprint_status_register_plain, /* TODO: improve */ .unlock = spi_disable_blockprotect, .write = spi_chip_write_256, .read = spi_chip_read, .voltage = {1650, 1950}, }, BR AMIN From: Wu, Amin Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 2:55 PM To: 'David Hendricks' <david.hendricks(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.hendricks@gmail.com>>; 'mkt_online(a)winbond.com<mailto:mkt_online@winbond.com>' <mkt_online(a)winbond.com<mailto:mkt_online@winbond.com>> Cc: 'flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org>' <flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org>> Subject: RE: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] Hi Winbond, Do you have a plan to support flash bios for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W via flashrom in Raspberry? BR AMIN From: Wu, Amin Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 1:32 PM To: David Hendricks <david.hendricks(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.hendricks@gmail.com>> Cc: flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: RE: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] Hi David, Hendricks, Can you share the flashrom link to download which support W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? Now I used DediProg to flash these bioschip. I can try with raspberry to flash when I get the flashrom from you. 😊 It is great help for me if flashrom support W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W. I tried edit flashchip.c and flashchip.h, but flash fail and fail. ☹ Thank you flashrom developer. Good job! Flashrom~Yes~ BR AMIN From: David Hendricks <david.hendricks(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.hendricks@gmail.com>> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 1:06 PM To: Wu, Amin <Amin.Wu(a)amd.com<mailto:Amin.Wu@amd.com>> Cc: flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: Re: [flashrom] Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? [CAUTION: External Email] Yes and yes :-) On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:05 PM Wu, Amin <Amin.Wu(a)amd.com<mailto:Amin.Wu@amd.com>> wrote: [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] Hi Do you have support for W25Q128FW and W25Q256.W? Thanks BR AMIN _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-leave(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom-leave@flashrom.org> ________________________________ The privileged confidential information contained in this email is intended for use only by the addressees as indicated by the original sender of this email. If you are not the addressee indicated in this email or are not responsible for delivery of the email to such a person, please kindly reply to the sender indicating this fact and delete all copies of it from your computer and network server immediately. Your cooperation is highly appreciated. It is advised that any unauthorized use of confidential information of Winbond is strictly prohibited; and any information in this email irrelevant to the official business of Winbond shall be deemed as neither given nor endorsed by Winbond. ________________________________ The privileged confidential information contained in this email is intended for use only by the addressees as indicated by the original sender of this email. If you are not the addressee indicated in this email or are not responsible for delivery of the email to such a person, please kindly reply to the sender indicating this fact and delete all copies of it from your computer and network server immediately. Your cooperation is highly appreciated. It is advised that any unauthorized use of confidential information of Winbond is strictly prohibited; and any information in this email irrelevant to the official business of Winbond shall be deemed as neither given nor endorsed by Winbond. _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- flashrom(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org> To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-leave(a)flashrom.org<mailto:flashrom-leave@flashrom.org> ________________________________ The privileged confidential information contained in this email is intended for use only by the addressees as indicated by the original sender of this email. If you are not the addressee indicated in this email or are not responsible for delivery of the email to such a person, please kindly reply to the sender indicating this fact and delete all copies of it from your computer and network server immediately. Your cooperation is highly appreciated. It is advised that any unauthorized use of confidential information of Winbond is strictly prohibited; and any information in this email irrelevant to the official business of Winbond shall be deemed as neither given nor endorsed by Winbond.

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Unable to flash AT25DF641(A)
by GIRAUDEAU-BOCQUET, LIONEL June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020

Hello from France, I have been trying to perform Bios updates on many (old) computers this last days and I am facing an issue with the AT25DF641(A) chip (like in this intersting post https://www.mail-archive.com/flashrom@flashrom.org/msg07475.html but I did not find the answer I was looking for). The full story : I am replacing some very old blades by some others (very old too) I had as spare parts. As they are spare parts, they have never been used, and so they come with a very very old Bios version (which has known bugs). These blades are : System Information Manufacturer: INSYDE Product Name: Thurley Version: Thurley.3.59.48.0028_BUILD_NCB_N0016 Back in 2011, when they have been shipped, they were used with RedHat 5.x and we were using a closed source software from Insyde to update the Bios. This software used a kernel module, so, as you have already understood, it is not working any more on modern Linux sources. So, I have two choices here : - use a recent flash tool, like flashrom - create a Redhat 5 PXE Boot image and try to use the old software The easy way is the first one of course. So I downloaded the source from git, extracted a tar.gz file, compile and tried it. It worked very well on the first blade (reading try) : [root@compute67 flashrom]# ./flashrom --programmer internal -r /dev/null flashrom v1.2-57-g6f793e4 on Linux 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 (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 ICH10". Enabling flash write... OK. Found Atmel flash chip "AT25DF321" (4096 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ffc00000. Reading flash... done. [root@compute67 flashrom]# The write part went fine too, and the blade rebooted properly with the latest Bios version. Second blade's flash try was different. It uses a AT25DF641(A) chip instead of a AT25DF321. The image size is 8MB instead of 4MB. Looking at flashrom Wiki both are handled well and should be able to be flashed. Reading test : [root@compute63 flashrom]# ./flashrom --programmer internal -r /dev/null flashrom v1.2-57-g6f793e4 on Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 (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 ICH10". Enabling flash write... Warning: Setting BIOS Control at 0xdc from 0x02 to 0x01 failed. New value is 0x02. OK. Found Atmel flash chip "AT25DF641(A)" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000. Ignoring security lockdown (if present) Reading flash... done. [root@compute63 flashrom]# I decided to flash it any way (because I have spare parts), and got a nice Brick (black screen after power on, nothing to do). So, as I have a lot of blades using this AT25DF641A chip, is there a way to flash it properly (because it is reported to be working in the wiki) or should I carry on trying to create a RHEL5 PXE image and use the old tool ? Thanks for your answers, Lionel

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Uprgrae SPIROM for Skylake-D platform
by HubertLin June 17, 2020

June 17, 2020

Hi, I would like to use flashrom to upgrade BIOS on Skylake-D platform. I have done some work to unlock ME and fill W25Q256JVFIQ table in flashschips.c. But there still have some opcode problem. Have you try flashrom on Skylake-D platform before? Is there any temporary patch for Skylake-D platform after v1.2 version. I would like to try it, may you please help me? The problem I meet as below, 1. ich_spi_send_command: Internal command size error for opcode 0xe9, got writecnt=1, want >=4 2. Probing for Winbond W25Q256JVFIQ, 32768 kB: Invalid OPCODE 0x9f, will not execut 3. Probing for Winbond W25Q256JVFIQ, 32768 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xf7, id Thank you BR, Hubert.lin

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Error flashrom BIOS macronix
by Julián Carrizo June 13, 2020

June 13, 2020

juluciano@juluciano-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi -E flashrom v1.2 on Linux 5.4.0-37-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 Macronix flash chip "MX25L8005/MX25L8006E/MX25L8008E/MX25V8005" (1024 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. Erasing and writing flash chip... FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x02, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0xfdf ERASE FAILED! Looking for another erase function. FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x02, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xfe83 ERASE FAILED! Looking for another erase function. FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x02, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xfe83 ERASE FAILED! Looking for another erase function. FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x02, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x000fffff: 0xd658b ERASE FAILED! Looking for another erase function. FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x02, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x000fffff: 0xd658b ERASE FAILED! Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. No usable erase functions left. FAILED! 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!

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GigaDevice flash chip
by Enrico Buttignol June 11, 2020

June 11, 2020

Hi, first of all thank you for your flashrom software. I'm trying to read and then flash a GigaDevice GD25Q40(B), precisely the chip label is GD25Q14BT. When I run flashrom the output log show this message: flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi -r new.bin flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). Found GigaDevice flash chip "GD25Q40(B)" (512 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. === This flash part has status UNTESTED 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! Reading flash... done. Please, can you tell me if I can safety probe, read erase and write? Thank you in advance Kind Regards Enrico Buttignol

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Current state of meson
by Angel Pons June 9, 2020

June 9, 2020

Dear flashrom community, Currently, flashrom has support for two different build systems: the traditional Makefile-based approach, and meson. The latter was introduced not too long ago [1] to be used by the fwupd project. However, as far as I am concerned, it is currently not used for build-testing on upstream, and is thus prone to breakage. As a result, both build systems need to be kept in sync manually, which is an additional maintenance burden. On top of that, it appears to be that no one has been working on addressing this problem upstream. In addition, looks like the Debian folks started using meson as well. Looks like binaries built using meson do not work correctly, e.g., the `-o` command-line option is unusable: $ flashrom -p dummy -o logfile.txt flashrom v1.2 on Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Log file not supported in standalone mode. Aborting. Please run "flashrom --help" for usage info. This problem can also be reproduced when building with meson on Arch Linux, so it is not specific to Debian. Needless to say, binaries built with the Makefile are unaffected. So, given that meson produces broken executables and nobody seems to be actively taking care of it, what should we do with it? Is anyone interested in improving and maintaining the meson integration? All suggestions are welcome. Best regards, Angel [1]: https://review.coreboot.org/31248

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W25Q40.W tested with linux_spi
by Richard Müller June 6, 2020

June 6, 2020

Hello, I've tested reading, writing and erasing on the windbond W25Q40.W with linux_spi. Everything worked fine. Regards Richi

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[SUCCESS] Lenovo ThinkPad T440p flash update report
by Crazy_Fox [UA] June 4, 2020

June 4, 2020

Hi, Team! I've successfully updated my BIOS with flashrom and as my chipset (Intel QM87 8086:8c4f) marked as untested, I'd like to share my log. Thanks!

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