September 2015 - flashrom - mail.coreboot.org

Contribution: option to disable read_all_first
by Willy Tarreau Sept. 14, 2015

Sept. 14, 2015

Hello, I was bothered by having to read all the contents of an empty flash before programming just a boot loader to it. It's particularly long when using a buspirate board. I looked into the code to see how to bypass this and discovered it was already planned but not implemented due to the (presumably) complex API of the doit() function. I took a different route : I'm using 3 different write levels in write_it: - normal write (read first) - trusted write (no need to read but still erase) - fully trusted write (flash assumed to be clean) These ones are set using a new "-t" flag for which I have even updated the man page and indicated that it's not recommended. It worked well for me so I'm sending the patches assuming they'll be useful for someone else. BTW, to give you a bit more context, I was writing a 8MB flash to upgrade a small router from its 4MB one, so I just had to add 4MB of \xff after the existing image before flashing it. Best regards, Willy

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flashrom can successfully read the BIOS image of my Amilo Xi3650 laptop
by Elmar Stellnberger Sept. 14, 2015

Sept. 14, 2015

Lately I have tried > flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick --read Xi3650.rom on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 3650 laptop and it has worked quite well. ... Found chipset "Intel ICH9M-E". Found Winbond flash chip "W25X16" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000. > sha256sum Xi3650.rom 8c5095d38bffe9b87d481ba8da395e48d9dcfadd43176979fd69e5da249b3763 Xi3650.rom BIOS (according to dmidecode) is Vendor: Phoenix Version: 1.0H-1646-0024 Release Date: 04/15/2010 I would love to see it under 'supported boards' in the future. More information can be found in the attachements.

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Success: ASRock ION 330HT-BD
by Stefan Tauner Sept. 13, 2015

Sept. 13, 2015

This is a small Atom-based media center from 2009. The board name is AMCP7AION-HT. I have successfully updated from the initial 1.00 to the last (and latest) version 1.20 and will add it myself to the wiki. ;) The -BD suffix is only indicating that there is a blueray player in the case. The mainboard and firmware is probably the same. http://www.asrock.com/nettop/NVIDIA/ION%20330HT-BD/ -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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Foxconn H61MXL-K verbose flashrom output
by Ryan Solomon Sept. 10, 2015

Sept. 10, 2015

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SST49LF016C: Supermicro X7DWT successfully reflashed
by Steven Stremciuc Sept. 10, 2015

Sept. 10, 2015

The Supermicro X7DWT motherboard is not listed on the flashrom supported hardware page, and the SST49LF016C chip has an "?" for erase and write status. I successfully reflashed the chip using flashrom, and thought I would send you a note so you can update the supported hardware list, if you would like. This board(s) was in a Dell C6100 XS23-SB. Thanks, Steven Stremciuc

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