Hi Jens,
On 06.06.2008 20:50, Jens Kuehnel wrote:
Hi coreboot list,
I visited the coreboot/flashrom talk during linuxtag, and was really
I remember... you were the one who brought hardware to the workshop.
impressed how "easy" it is can help/to hack. My target is to let coreboot run on my alix2c2 (the one with only 2 network cards). The advantage for me is, its similar to an existing target (not too hard), but far enough to learn something.
That's great.
My first problem it that flashrom does not support my flashchip. But I hope I can fix this. :-) Patch attached.
Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately it seems your mailer wrapped the patch. Thunderbird users either - have to attach the patch or - select HTML composition, then choose "Preformat", then paste the patch and then send it and confirm converting the mail to plain text.
But before I break my flash. Is it possible to destroy the chip, by using the wrong method?
In theory, this should not happen. In practice, old or extremely cheap flash chips can have sticky bits after a few erase cycles. I think the risk for your board is almost zero.
The chip is a AMIC A49LF040A. It look like a SST 49LF040 replacement, I found the IDs @ http://www.amictechnology.com/pdf/A49LF040A.pdf.
I have a "LPC.1A", which means I can recover from bad flashes. But I don't like to solder SMD.
Can someone with more experience look over it, before I test it? Thanks a lot!
I'd like to do that, but the patch was so mangled that I had problems reading it. It looks like you put vendor and device ID together in AMIC_A49LF040A. The vendor ID you want is probably AMIC_ID_NOPREFIX.
Greetings from Frankfurt/M (Germany)
Greetings from Tuebingen (same country)
Regards, Carl-Daniel