Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Revision 2 SPI

Hmmm..
 When you took contact with Gigabyte, did you clearly told them that you have a
SPI revision of their board?
 For my part, I desoldered the SPI flash chip on my board and took a look at it
with a powerfull glass and found that, in fact, they use a MX25L4005A chip from
MXC.
 But that doesn't matter a lot I think.. I found that many SPI flash use the
same protocol (CFI?) for programming, so adding support in flashrom should be
easy, now that we already know that the controller of the SPI signals is the
SuperIO chip..
 Hope this helps..
  Florentin

Quoting Chris Lingard :
> Gigabyte have told me that the BIOS chip is made by SST, and the model
> name is SST25LF040A BIOS ROM which is PLCC32 type.
>
> The data sheet and details are at
>
> http://www.sst.com/products.xhtml/serial_flash/25/SST25LF040A
>
> I am now very confused because I have PLCC32 sockets and these are
> nothing like the BIOS chip which has 8 connections.
>
> (I have two PLCC32 sockets and four unused flash chips to give away, if
> they are no use to this version of the motherboard).
>
> I will probably try to source some of these chips, just in case the rest
> of the problems can be solved.
>
> Chris Lingard