December 2014 - flashrom - mail.coreboot.org

Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Add support for Spansion S25FL127S.
by Stefan Tauner Feb. 8, 2015

Feb. 8, 2015

On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 11:02:35 +0100 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > This flash chip can be configured (one time) to use 64 KiB or 256 KiB sectors. > Additionally, in the 64 KiB mode it supports 16 4 KiB sub-sectors that can be > (one time) programmed to be on the top or bottom of the device. The sub-sectors > can be erased with the 0x20 opcode but because this opcode does not work > with the remaining sectors and flashrom can not cope with that the 0x20 > opcode is not supported yet. > > This patch adds two definitions, one for the 64 KiB and 256 KiB configuration > respectively. The device also shares the RDID with the various S25FL128 > devices so we have to increase the maximum number of successfully probed > chips to 8. > > The 64 KiB mode was tested on real hardware. > > Signed-off-by: Jernej Škrabec <jernej.skrabec(a)planet.si> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> I have committed this patch in r1858 because Jernej told me that he *currently* is unable to test the patch on real hardware. Since the modifications were minor there shouldn't be any issues though. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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Test-Results for "Pm25LV512(A)"
by The Raven Feb. 4, 2015

Feb. 4, 2015

Hello :-) Here are the results for this chip. Tested with Arduino (serprog). Probing: OK Reading: OK Erasing: OK Writing: OK The writing (sign) on the Chip is: Pm25LV512 AE1034 M23360LG Should i test something else? BTW: This chip was found on a "newer" nvidia graphic card (GF108 / Gforce GT430 / 1GB Ram).

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FOSDEM 2015
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Jan. 29, 2015

Jan. 29, 2015

Hi everyone! 31 Jan 2015 and 1 Feb 2015: https://fosdem.org/2015/news/2014-09-19-call-for-participation-part-two/ I would love to be there again and some of you already said they'd try to be there, but I forgot who. Who can be there with me at the booth and when can you be there? A preliminary stand application has already been sent by me to somewhat hit the deadline, but I'd like to fill it in a bit more. Side note: If someone has an interesting topic for a lightning talk, please submit one! Regards, Carl-Daniel

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[PATCH]Build everything on request
by Patrick Georgi Jan. 19, 2015

Jan. 19, 2015

Hi, attached patch adds a BUILD_EVERYTHING flag to Makefile that sets all CONFIG_* flags to "yes" if they were "no". This provides a comfortable way to ensure maximum code exposure to tools like coverity[0] or clang's scan-build. BUILD_EVERYTHING will likely fail on non-Linux/x86 systems, but it seems that's a hard dependency to compile everything at this time, so well... Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick(a)georgi-clan.de> Regards, Patrick [0] https://scan.coverity.com/projects/1020

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Re: [flashrom] Add new Macronix MX25L6495F support
by Stefan Tauner Jan. 10, 2015

Jan. 10, 2015

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:13:54 +0800 alexlu6(a)mxic.com.tw wrote: > > Dear sirs, > > This mail comes from Macronix to add the new MX25L6495F flash chip > support > in the flashrom project in order to help the adoption of the chip for > Google Chromium OS. > Please help to review it. Thanks a lot! Hello Alex, I'd like to add support for this chip to vanilla flashrom as well but could not find a public datasheet to add a few additional bits. Will this chip and a respective datasheet be available publicly? -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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Re: [flashrom] FAILED: wolf
by John Lewis Dec. 31, 2014

Dec. 31, 2014

So, you are manually flashing a Dell Chromebook and you're wondering if this error is significant?On 30 Dec 2014 21:36, Nick Long <vieuphoria(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Erasing and writing flash chip... spi_block_erase_20 failed during command execution at address 0x0 > Verifiying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00000062! Expected 0xff, Read=0x0b, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x007fffff: 0x4 > Your flash chip is in an unknown state.

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hp dv7-7023 bios
by bob Rehcsif Dec. 31, 2014

Dec. 31, 2014

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W836xx: W840SU Series: flashrom -V
by Jörg Walter Dec. 31, 2014

Dec. 31, 2014

flashrom v0.9.7-r1711 on Linux 3.17.7-gentoo (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org flashrom was built with libpci 3.2.0, GCC 4.8.3, little endian Command line (3 args): flashrom --programmer internal -V Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 1594M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 100 us, 1000 myus = 1001 us, 10000 myus = 10005 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK. Initializing internal programmer No coreboot table found. DMI string system-manufacturer: "Notebook " DMI string system-product-name: "W840SU Series " DMI string system-version: "Not Applicable " DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Notebook " DMI string baseboard-product-name: "W840SU Series " DMI string baseboard-version: "Not Applicable " DMI string chassis-type: "Laptop" Laptop detected via DMI. W836xx enter config mode worked or we were already in config mode. W836xx leave config mode had no effect. Active config mode, unknown reg 0x20 ID: 85. Please send the output of "flashrom -V" to flashrom(a)flashrom.org with W836xx: your board name: flashrom -V as the subject to help us finish support for your Super I/O. Thanks. Found ITE EC, ID 0x8587, Rev 0x06 on port 0x2e. ======================================================================== WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. See the manpage and http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details. If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop and write may brick your laptop. Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight failure and sudden poweroff. You have been warned. ======================================================================== Aborting. Error: Programmer initialization failed.

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errent splash screen in front of bios boot screen.
by bob Rehcsif Dec. 31, 2014

Dec. 31, 2014

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Re: [flashrom] Intel 28F001BN/BX-T erase/write operation verified on 3C905B-TXNM
by Stefan Tauner Dec. 31, 2014

Dec. 31, 2014

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 05:42:33 +0800 Lu Xie <firexl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried programming Intel 28F001BN/BX-T on 3C905B-TXNM but it failed at > erase/write. I checked that chip's datasheet and it says PIN 1 and 30 must > be pulled to 12V to accept erase/write operation, but the card can only > offer 5V at PIN 1 and NC at PIN 30. So I wired 12V to the two pins and then > flashrom erased/wrote the chip successfully. Please check the attached > output files for the two attempts. Hello Lu, Thanks for report! The successful log does not correspond 100% with the first one: the failure happens at the very beginning of the flash address space while the successful write does skip the first blocks and does only erase and write the last one. This can easily happen depending on the existing data and the image provided to flashrom. Just to make sure... can you please elaborate what happened between the two attempts that could explain what I wrote above? -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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