flashrom April 2011

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Re: [flashrom] Intel X58 Tylersburg Mainboard
by Idwer Vollering 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

2011/4/21 Shailendra Sodhi <shailendra.sodhi(a)endace.com>: > Please find attached patch. > > Signed-off-by:Shailendra Sodhi <shailendra.sodhi(a)endace.com> Thanks. Is this the Tylersburg board in question: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DTH-iF.cfm ? Can you edit print.c as well, adding the board name and the forementionned URL ? Once you have done so, I'll ack. Idwer

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[RFC] Can flashrom be configured and built as a programmer only tool
by Bao, Zheng 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Since the Dediprog can work now, if I just want to use flashrom as a programmer interface, I may erase the host BIOS accidently. I think if the flashrom is built without the self-programming feature by some easy settings, I don't have to worry about it. Is it reasonable? Zheng

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Re: [flashrom] Need assistance for using non-coreboot bios image
by Idwer Vollering 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

2011/4/20 David Bein <d.bein(a)f5.com>: > Hello Idwer, Hello David, > > Thank you very much for the assistance. I assume > that something like: nvramtool -c 0 will force the > newly booted bios to re-compute the checksum on the cmos? I assume you want to save the current contents with "nvramtool -b cmos_contents.bin" and restore those settings with "nvramtool -B cmos_settings.bin". The manpage can be read (unformatted) in trac: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/browser/trunk/util/nvramtool/cli/… > > --David >> >> 2011/4/20 David Bein <d.bein(a)f5.com>: >> >>> >>> Hello ... >>> >>> I am very impressed with flashrom. I just used it on a motherboard based >>> on >>> the Lynnfield 3420 chipset and it worked very well and is much faster >>> than >>> the >>> AMI supplied equivalent. >>> >>> I have one problem which is that the very first boot after flashing the >>> bios rom >>> image, the bios complains about a CMOS checksum error and patiently >>> waits for some input. I am assuming others have been here before. What I >>> did >>> next >>> was enter the bios menu and tell it to save changes (none made). All >>> boots >>> after >>> this no longer complain about the CMOS checksum. >>> >>> The reason flashrom is interesting to us (aside from not being >>> restricted >>> by AMI) >>> is for unattended use in customer upgrade situations. Having any upgrade >>> path >>> require a human to type something is a bit of a problem. >>> >>> Any helpful hints will be greatly appreciated. >>> >> >> nvramtool is what you are looking for: http://www.coreboot.org/Nvramtool >> >> >>> >>> Last but not least, thank you to all of you whole have put a lot of >>> effort >>> into >>> this tool for use by coreboot and others. This really validates why open >>> source >>> is needed in the first place. >>> >>> --David >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> flashrom mailing list >>> flashrom(a)flashrom.org >>> http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom >>> >>> > >

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Intel X58 Tylersburg Mainboard
by Shailendra Sodhi 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

The write operation works on Atmel AT25DF321 chip. Please find attached file that includes flashrom output.

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Need assistance for using non-coreboot bios image
by David Bein 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Hello ... I am very impressed with flashrom. I just used it on a motherboard based on the Lynnfield 3420 chipset and it worked very well and is much faster than the AMI supplied equivalent. I have one problem which is that the very first boot after flashing the bios rom image, the bios complains about a CMOS checksum error and patiently waits for some input. I am assuming others have been here before. What I did next was enter the bios menu and tell it to save changes (none made). All boots after this no longer complain about the CMOS checksum. The reason flashrom is interesting to us (aside from not being restricted by AMI) is for unattended use in customer upgrade situations. Having any upgrade path require a human to type something is a bit of a problem. Any helpful hints will be greatly appreciated. Last but not least, thank you to all of you whole have put a lot of effort into this tool for use by coreboot and others. This really validates why open source is needed in the first place. --David

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Re: [flashrom] Writing BIOS to General Electric CR11 single board computer
by Idwer Vollering 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

2011/4/19 Razee, Robert G (DS-1) <RRazee(a)drs-ds.com>: > Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica > > This e-mail is basically a re-submittal with different subject. > > I am currently working with an Intel based controller that is not supported by FLASHROM. > The controller was purchased with AMI BIOS which configures the South Bridge BIOS_CNTL register to only allow SMI code to update the BIOS. > > > I have attached log files from the following: > > flashrom -V > flashrom.log "FlashRom was extracted from svn on 4/19/2011 and built with no changes." > lspci -nnvvxxx > lspci.log > superiotool -deV > superiotool.log > > biosdecode > biosdecode.log > hwinfo --bios > hwinfo-bios.log > dmidecode --type bios > dmidecode-bios.log lshw > lshw.log > > > The controller (CR11) is manufactured by GE and uses the following chipset: Do you have a contact at GE, that can help you with this controller ? > > Intel Celeron Processor > Intel E7520 North Bridge > Intel 6300ESB South Bridge > SST49LF008A Firmware Hub > > With minor tweaks to flashrom, it was able to see the following: > > Found chip "SST SST49LF008A" (1024 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff00000 Can we have a look at your modification/patch, if you are (legally) allowed to disclose your work ? > > The FWH ID was found at 0xfffc0000 and 0xfffc0001. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. We are in need of a reflash utility other than the one supplied by AMI . > > > Thanks, > > > Robert G. Razee > Senior Software Engineer > DRS Consolidated Controls Inc. > 21 South Street > Danbury, CT 06810 > Tel: (203) 730-6808 > Email: RRazee(a)DRS-DS.com > > 3.1.1001 > _______________________________________________ > flashrom mailing list > flashrom(a)flashrom.org > http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom >

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Re: [flashrom] Writing BIOS to General Electric CR11 single board computer
by Razee, Robert G (DS-1) 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica Oops, the attachments got dropped on the first attempt. Robert G. Razee Senior Software Engineer DRS Consolidated Controls Inc. 21 South Street Danbury, CT 06810 Tel: (203) 730-6808 Email: RRazee(a)DRS-DS.com -----Original Message----- From: Razee, Robert G (DS-1) Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:10 PM To: flashrom(a)flashrom.org Cc: Razee, Robert G (DS-1) Subject: RE: [flashrom] Writing BIOS to General Electric CR11 single board computer Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica This e-mail is basically a re-submittal with different subject. I am currently working with an Intel based controller that is not supported by FLASHROM. The controller was purchased with AMI BIOS which configures the South Bridge BIOS_CNTL register to only allow SMI code to update the BIOS. I have attached log files from the following: flashrom -V > flashrom.log "FlashRom was extracted from svn on 4/19/2011 and built with no changes." lspci -nnvvxxx > lspci.log superiotool -deV > superiotool.log biosdecode > biosdecode.log hwinfo --bios > hwinfo-bios.log dmidecode --type bios > dmidecode-bios.log lshw > lshw.log The controller (CR11) is manufactured by GE and uses the following chipset: Intel Celeron Processor Intel E7520 North Bridge Intel 6300ESB South Bridge SST49LF008A Firmware Hub With minor tweaks to flashrom, it was able to see the following: Found chip "SST SST49LF008A" (1024 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff00000 The FWH ID was found at 0xfffc0000 and 0xfffc0001. Any help will be greatly appreciated. We are in need of a reflash utility other than the one supplied by AMI . Thanks, Robert G. Razee Senior Software Engineer DRS Consolidated Controls Inc. 21 South Street Danbury, CT 06810 Tel: (203) 730-6808 Email: RRazee(a)DRS-DS.com 3.1.1001 3.1.1001

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Re: [flashrom] Writing BIOS to General Electric CR11 single board computer
by Razee, Robert G (DS-1) 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica This e-mail is basically a re-submittal with different subject. I am currently working with an Intel based controller that is not supported by FLASHROM. The controller was purchased with AMI BIOS which configures the South Bridge BIOS_CNTL register to only allow SMI code to update the BIOS. I have attached log files from the following: flashrom -V > flashrom.log "FlashRom was extracted from svn on 4/19/2011 and built with no changes." lspci -nnvvxxx > lspci.log superiotool -deV > superiotool.log biosdecode > biosdecode.log hwinfo --bios > hwinfo-bios.log dmidecode --type bios > dmidecode-bios.log lshw > lshw.log The controller (CR11) is manufactured by GE and uses the following chipset: Intel Celeron Processor Intel E7520 North Bridge Intel 6300ESB South Bridge SST49LF008A Firmware Hub With minor tweaks to flashrom, it was able to see the following: Found chip "SST SST49LF008A" (1024 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff00000 The FWH ID was found at 0xfffc0000 and 0xfffc0001. Any help will be greatly appreciated. We are in need of a reflash utility other than the one supplied by AMI . Thanks, Robert G. Razee Senior Software Engineer DRS Consolidated Controls Inc. 21 South Street Danbury, CT 06810 Tel: (203) 730-6808 Email: RRazee(a)DRS-DS.com 3.1.1001

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Re: [flashrom] Writing BIOS via SMI
by Idwer Vollering 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

2011/4/15 Razee, Robert G (DS-1) <RRazee(a)drs-ds.com>: > Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica > > I am currently working with an Intel based controller that is not supported > by FLASHROM. The controller was purchased with AMI BIOS which configures the > South Bridge BIOS_CNTL register to only allow SMI code to update the BIOS. > Is there any work being done to provide BIOS writing via SMI? > > > > The controller (CR11) is manufactured by GE and uses the following chipset: > > > > Intel Celeron Processor > > Intel E7520 North Bridge > > Intel 6300ESB South Bridge The 6300ESB chipset is known to be supported: http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_chipsets > > SST49LF008A Firmware Hub > > > > I have been able to get FLASHROM to find the firmware hub, but it cannot > successfully write the BIOS. The AMI utility is using an SMI handler to > perform the BIOS updates. IMHO BLE should be set to 0 and BIOSWE should be set to 1. http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/300641.pdf 8.1.12 Offset 4E - 4Fh: BIOS_CNTL (LPC I/F—D31:F0) > > > > Any information regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated. Can you re-run flashrom like this: "flashrom -V" ? > > > > > > > > Robert G. Razee > > Senior Software Engineer > > DRS Consolidated Controls Inc. > > 21 South Street > > Danbury, CT 06810 > > Tel: (203) 730-6808 > > Email: RRazee(a)DRS-DS.com > > > > 3.1.1001 > > _______________________________________________ > flashrom mailing list > flashrom(a)flashrom.org > http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom >

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Fw: Help: trouble when flashing rom
by Stefan Tauner 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

hello cyrille please try to always "reply to all" to include the flashrom.org address in destinations. you will get faster and better answers. i dont have time now to look at that problem, but it does not look too good from a first glance imho. Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:42:36 +0200 From: Cyrille Bartholomée <cyrille(a)bartholomee.com> To: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)student.tuwien.ac.at> Subject: Re: [flashrom] Help: trouble when flashing rom Dear Stefan, First of all thank you for responding so fast and trying to help me! Just built checkout from svn. It outputs this result: flashrom v0.9.3-r1288 on Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK. Found chipset "Intel ICH4-M", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH. Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00016000! Expected=0xff, Read=0xae, failed byte count from 0x00016000-0x00016fff: 0xfde ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED at 0x00010000! Expected=0xff, Read=0xca, failed byte count from 0x00010000-0x0001ffff: 0xfeb2 ERASE FAILED! Segmentatiefout Segmentatiefout=segmentation error I am using an Asus laptop model M6Ne, the exact type of board I don't know. I've attached some information based on output using the following commands: flashrom -V, lspci -nnvvvxxx and superiotool -deV. Maybe this can help you? Again, thanks for your help. Kind regards, Cyrille Bartholomée | De Damhouderestraat 20 | 2018 Antwerpen t. 0032 3 298 4244 | m. 0032 499 711 018 | e. cyrille(a)bartholomee.com Op dinsdag 19 april 2011 00:41:24 schreef u: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:25:07 +0200 > Cyrille Bartholomée <cyrille(a)bartholomee.com> wrote: > > > Dear, > > > > I'm facing this problem when flashing my rom: > > > > flashrom v0.9.2-r1028 on Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (i686), built with > > if possible please try a newer version and provide us a verbose log > (-V parameter). either 0.9.3 or even better compile the svn version > from source: http://flashrom.org/Downloads > -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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