Hi,
the release of flashrom 0.9.7 is imminent and I would really like to enable the Dediprog programmer by default. Carl-Daniel informed me that the only problem is that we do not know which opcode is actually used for reading on the SPI bus. It could be that we initiate a fast read (0x0b) instead of a normal read (0x03). This would work with the majority of flash chips but would not with others where flashrom should normally work. Since we are not sure we don't want to enable it without further consideration/testing/warning messages. Furthermore not all chips supporting fast read have this fact noted in their datashets. So testing any apparently non-fast read chip does not suffice. We would rather be able to check the opcode on the SPI bus with a logic analyzer directly. Are there any Dediprog users who can help us with that please?
I think its safe to use a read opcode by default.
The DediProg can't reach high clock rates, well below the limit for the normal read on most memories.
I have a DediProg available for testing.
Thanks. Em 16/06/2013 11:10, "Stefan Tauner" stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at escreveu:
Hi,
the release of flashrom 0.9.7 is imminent and I would really like to enable the Dediprog programmer by default. Carl-Daniel informed me that the only problem is that we do not know which opcode is actually used for reading on the SPI bus. It could be that we initiate a fast read (0x0b) instead of a normal read (0x03). This would work with the majority of flash chips but would not with others where flashrom should normally work. Since we are not sure we don't want to enable it without further consideration/testing/warning messages. Furthermore not all chips supporting fast read have this fact noted in their datashets. So testing any apparently non-fast read chip does not suffice. We would rather be able to check the opcode on the SPI bus with a logic analyzer directly. Are there any Dediprog users who can help us with that please?
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