Hi,
coreboot and flashrom got a nice booth at the FrOSCamp expo at ETH
Zurich (Switzerland) Sept. 17-18 2010. It is sort of a Swiss FOSDEM, and
FUDCon EMEA will be in the same place so there will be lots of
interesting people to meet. http://wiki.froscamp.org/Welcome
Not only do we have a nice and spacious booth, I even got two slots to
talk about coreboot and flashrom on Saturday.
If you have any coreboot/flashrom related flyers/posters in PDF/PS/...
format, please send them to me ASAP so I can make sure they can be
printed in time.
Peter, I think you once created awesome flyers for coreboot. I'd love to
reprint them and distribute them amongst FrOSCamp visitors.
I would also appreciate PDFs of coreboot related talks. I do have my own
slides for a coreboot introduction, but it's always a good idea to
cross-check them against other presentations to make sure I don't forget
anything.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
Hi,
just a quick announcement I totally forgot to send out to the probably
most relevant places (coreboot + flashrom) about a little hardware
project I have finished a while ago: openbiosprog-spi.
It's a USB-based SPI chip flasher hardware based on the FTDI
FT2232H chip, all the gory details (including lots of photos) are at:
http://randomprojects.org/wiki/Openbiosprog-spihttp://hermann-uwe.de/blog/openbiosprog-spi-a-diy-open-hardware-and-free-so…
The device is already supported by flashrom out of the box. It has a
small DIP-8 socket to allow flashing DIP-8 SPI chips from newer
mainboards externally (if they're in a socket). As an alternative you
can also solder an 8-pin pin-header instead of the socket in order to
connect to a soldered SO-8 chip on a mainboard directly using some wires.
The hardware schematics and layouts were done using the open-source
Kicad suite and they're CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed. All hardware files are
available from here:
git clone git://gitorious.org/openbiosprog/openbiosprog-spi.git
Flashrom usage of the device looks like this:
flashrom -p ft2232_spi:type=2232H,port=A -w foo.bin
Have fun, Uwe.
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http://hermann-uwe.de | http://sigrok.orghttp://randomprojects.org | http://unmaintained-free-software.org
Hello guys! Please help. I have unsuccessful flashed motherboard ASRock
775twins-HDTV (http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?model=775twins-hdtv).
Here the system information and flashrom log:
lspci -nn:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge [1002:5a33] (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]
00:19.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge [10b9:5249]
00:1c.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
00:1c.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
00:1c.3 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller [10b9:5239] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device [10b9:5455] (rev 20)
00:1e.0 ISA bridge [0601]: ALi Corporation PCI to LPC Controller [10b9:1573] (rev 31)
00:1e.1 Bridge [0680]: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101]
00:1f.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229] (rev c7)
00:1f.1 SATA controller [0106]: ALi Corporation ULi 5287 SATA [10b9:5287] (rev 02)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] [1002:5a61]
02:16.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
dmidecode:
http://pastebin.com/8w1JWeJW
flashrom -rV bios.bak:
http://pastebin.com/dKcbvC3p
flashrom -wV newbios.rom:
http://pastebin.com/qeqmsyGY
I have spare machine with the same hardware for emergency BIOS restore,
but if there any chance to rescue machine with software it would be good.
Thank you very much!
--
Kasatkin Nikolay
System administrator
Saint-Petersburg State University of
Inoformation Technology, Mechanics and Optics
Hi,
as suggested on IRC, I am sending here information about a motherboard
with bios that cannot be atm flashed with flashrom.
Motherboard manufacturer: Gigabyte
Motherboard model: ga-k8n51gmf-9
Motherboard rev: not specified
BIOS update URI:
http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/BIOS/motherboard_bios_ga-k8n51gmf-9(rh…
Output of flashrom -w n51gmf9.f8:
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address
0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff,
Read=0x24, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xfefa
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or
mail flashrom(a)flashrom.org
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
I have attached output of commands as suggested on the IRC channel.
thanks and bye,
Filip Zyzniewski
Tefnet