Re: [coreboot] Flashing problem with SST49LF004B

[Corey Osgood]

what's the output of diff -us original.bin sst_after_write.bin? Can you
download the bios from the manufacturer and see if flashing that works?

-Corey

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:03 AM, malatesh kamatad 
wrote:
> I worked with the step by step this is the output......
>
> [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -r original.bin
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
> Reading Flash...done
>
> [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -E
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> Erasing flash chip
>
> [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -r sst_after_erase.bin
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> Reading Flash...done
>
> [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -w original.bin
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Programming page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
>
> [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -r sst_after_write.bin
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> Reading Flash...done
>
> Thanks,
> Malatesh.
>
> On 04/04/2008, malatesh kamatad  wrote:
> > Hi..
> >      We are having two BIOS i.e, PM49FL004( motherboard's BIOS) and
> >
> > empty flashrom
> >     SST49LF004B ..
> >
> >    We are trying to flash the content of PM49FL004 to SST49LF004B
> >
> > flashrom
> >     according to your suggestion we have done ..we are getting
> >
> > output  as bellow..
> >
> > [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -E
> >
> > Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> >
> > No coreboot table found.
> >
> > Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> >
> > SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> >
> > Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> >
> > Erasing flash chip
> >
> > Erasing page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
> >
> > [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -r malateh.bin
> >
> > Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> >
> > No coreboot table found.
> >
> > Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> >
> > SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> >
> > Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> >
> > Reading Flash...done
> >
> > [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -w malateh.bin
> >
> > Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> >
> > No coreboot table found.
> >
> > Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> >
> > SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> >
> > Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> >
> > Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> >
> > Programming page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
> >
> > [root@localhost ~]# flashrom -v malateh.bin
> >
> > Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> >
> > No coreboot table found.
> >
> > Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> >
> > SST49LF004A/B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> >
> > Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB).
> >
> > Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> >
> > Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
> >
> > After that we tried to boot the system by SST49lf004B but system is not
> > rebooting....
> >
> > So we want to flash the content of the Pm49fl004 to SST49lf004 so that
> > our system can boot
> >
> > using SST49lf004....
> >
> > thanks,
> > Malatesh..
> >
> > On 04/04/2008, bari  wrote:
> > > Try Peters suggestion of reading the flash after an erase and see what
> > > is there.
> > >
> > > If it is erased, read back after you have tried to write and compare.
> > >
> > > See what is or is not happening.
> > >
> > > -Bari
> > >
> > > malatesh kamatad wrote:
> > > > Hi...
> > > >       I am working on ASRock motherboard .....in FWH mode...
> > > >
> > > > with regards.
> > > > Malatesh
> > > >
> > > > On 03/04/2008, *bari* <[e-mail] >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > malatesh kamatad wrote:
> > > >    Hi all..
> > > >          I have worked with PM49fl00x.diff patch ,its worked
> > > >
> > > > fine
> > > >        and i got the output as below
> > > >
> > > > The PM49fl00x can work in LPC and FWH modes. Do you know which
> > > >    mode is being used?
> > > >    What mainboard did you test this in?
> > > >                       Now i am working on SST49LF004B
> > > >                            33-4C-NHE
> > > >                                      0710022-CA   with the
> > > >     motherboard  K8Upgrade-VM800
> > > >                     The flashrom detect flash device on this
> > > >    board, But the erasing and writting operation is not
> > > >
> > > > happening
> > > >        properly
> > > >          hier flashrom output :
> > > >    Is this the board by ASRock?
> > > >
> > > > -Bari