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[commit] r1914 - trunk
by repository service 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Author: stefanct Date: Fri Jan 15 00:05:55 2016 New Revision: 1914 URL: http://flashrom.org/trac/flashrom/changeset/1914 Log: Set LC_ALL globally in Makefile. This won't work for the majority of relevant commands because they use the $(shell) function and GNU make does not relay variables exported within the makefile to their evironment. Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> Modified: trunk/Makefile Modified: trunk/Makefile ============================================================================== --- trunk/Makefile Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) +++ trunk/Makefile Fri Jan 15 00:05:55 2016 (r1914) @@ -77,8 +77,18 @@ LDFLAGS += -static endif +# Set LC_ALL=C to minimize influences of the locale. +# However, this won't work for the majority of relevant commands because they use the $(shell) function and +# GNU make does not relay variables exported within the makefile to their evironment. +LC_ALL=C +export LC_ALL + dummy_for_make_3_80:=$(shell printf "Build started on %s\n\n" "$$(date)" >$(BUILD_DETAILS_FILE)) + +# Provide an easy way to execute a command, print its output to stdout and capture any error message on stderr +# in the build details file together with the original stdout output. debug_shell = $(shell export LC_ALL=C ; { echo 'exec: export LC_ALL=C ; { $(1) ; }' >&2; { $(1) ; } | tee -a $(BUILD_DETAILS_FILE) ; echo >&2 ; } 2>>$(BUILD_DETAILS_FILE)) + ############################################################################### # General OS-specific settings. # 1. Prepare for later by gathering information about host and target OS @@ -1087,7 +1097,7 @@ @svn export -r BASE . $(EXPORTDIR)/flashrom-$(RELEASENAME) @sed "s/^SVNVERSION.*/SVNVERSION := $(SVNVERSION)/" Makefile >$(EXPORTDIR)/flashrom-$(RELEASENAME)/Makefile @cp $(PROGRAM).8 "$(EXPORTDIR)/flashrom-$(RELEASENAME)/$(PROGRAM).8" - @LC_ALL=C svn log >$(EXPORTDIR)/flashrom-$(RELEASENAME)/ChangeLog + @svn log >$(EXPORTDIR)/flashrom-$(RELEASENAME)/ChangeLog @echo Exported $(EXPORTDIR)/flashrom-$(RELEASENAME)/ tarball: export

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Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Pimp the manpage to create nicer hyperlinks and HTML output.
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

On 11.01.2016 20:40, Stefan Tauner wrote: > Also, add a target to the makefile to build a flashrom.8.html with groff. > To fix some formatting issues this adds some indention commands as well. > > FIXME: svn:ignore for the html > Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> > --- > Makefile | 8 +++- > flashrom.8.tmpl | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ > 2 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) > > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:08:20 +0100 > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006(a)gmx.net> wrote: > >> IIRC you said on IRC that you have a sed version of this. Is this patch >> obsolete? > Even better... I first diagnosed the problem wrongly. The actual problem > was that apparently the BSD groffs could not call FKGRF correctly. > Since this was only added to avoid duplicate code it is not a big issue > to simply duplicate the function as in this patch. Code looks good. There are quite a few hyperlinks to flashrom.org in there. Some use http, some use https, some use www.flashrom.org, some use flashrom.org. We should decide upon a canonical URL scheme and use that throughout. I'd like https, but I have no preference about using www or not. Regards, Carl-Daniel

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[commit] r1913 - trunk
by repository service 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Author: stefanct Date: Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 New Revision: 1913 URL: http://flashrom.org/trac/flashrom/changeset/1913 Log: Pimp the manpage to create nicer hyperlinks and HTML output. Also, add a target to the makefile to build a flashrom.8.html with groff. To fix some formatting issues this adds some indention commands as well. Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006(a)gmx.net> Modified: trunk/ (props changed) trunk/Makefile trunk/flashrom.8.tmpl trunk/flashrom.c trunk/ichspi.c trunk/internal.c trunk/mcp6x_spi.c trunk/print.c Modified: trunk/Makefile ============================================================================== --- trunk/Makefile Thu Jan 7 19:13:07 2016 (r1912) +++ trunk/Makefile Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ # This includes all frontends and libflashrom. # We don't use EXEC_SUFFIX here because we want to clean everything. clean: - rm -f $(PROGRAM) $(PROGRAM).exe libflashrom.a *.o *.d $(PROGRAM).8 $(BUILD_DETAILS_FILE) + rm -f $(PROGRAM) $(PROGRAM).exe libflashrom.a *.o *.d $(PROGRAM).8 $(PROGRAM).8.html $(BUILD_DETAILS_FILE) @+$(MAKE) -C util/ich_descriptors_tool/ clean distclean: clean @@ -1069,8 +1069,12 @@ @$(DIFF) -q .features.tmp .features >/dev/null 2>&1 && rm .features.tmp || mv .features.tmp .features @rm -f .featuretest.c .featuretest$(EXEC_SUFFIX) +$(PROGRAM).8.html: $(PROGRAM).8 + @groff -mandoc -Thtml $< >$@ + $(PROGRAM).8: $(PROGRAM).8.tmpl - @sed -e '1 s#".*".*#"$(shell ./util/getrevision.sh -d $(PROGRAM).8.tmpl 2>/dev/null)" "$(VERSION)"#' <$< >$@ + @# Add the man page change date and version to the man page + @sed -e 's#.TH FLASHROM 8 ".*".*#.TH FLASHROM 8 "$(shell ./util/getrevision.sh -d $(PROGRAM).8.tmpl 2>/dev/null)" "$(VERSION)"#' <$< >$@ install: $(PROGRAM)$(EXEC_SUFFIX) $(PROGRAM).8 mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/sbin Modified: trunk/flashrom.8.tmpl ============================================================================== --- trunk/flashrom.8.tmpl Thu Jan 7 19:13:07 2016 (r1912) +++ trunk/flashrom.8.tmpl Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) @@ -1,3 +1,43 @@ +.\" Load the www device when using groff; provide a fallback for groff's MTO macro that formats email addresses. +.ie \n[.g] \ +. mso www.tmac +.el \ +. de MTO \\$2 \(la\\$1 \(ra\\$3 +. . +.\" Create wrappers for .MTO and .URL that print only text on systems w/o groff or if not outputting to a HTML +.\" device. To that end we need to distinguish HTML output on groff from other configurations first. +.nr groffhtml 0 +.if \n[.g] \ +. if "\*[.T]"html" \ +. nr groffhtml 1 +.\" For code reuse it would be nice to have a single wrapper that gets its target macro as parameter. +.\" However, this did not work out with NetBSD's and OpenBSD's groff... +.de URLB +. ie (\n[groffhtml]==1) \{\ +. URL \\$@ +. \} +. el \{\ +. ie "\\$2"" \{\ +. BR "\\$1" "\\$3" +. \} +. el \{\ +. RB "\\$2 \(la" "\\$1" "\(ra\\$3" +. \} +. \} +.. +.de MTOB +. ie (\n[groffhtml]==1) \{\ +. MTO \\$@ +. \} +. el \{\ +. ie "\\$2"" \{\ +. BR "\\$1" "\\$3" +. \} +. el \{\ +. RB "\\$2 \(la" "\\$1" "\(ra\\$3" +. \} +. \} +.. .TH FLASHROM 8 "" "" .SH NAME flashrom \- detect, read, write, verify and erase flash chips @@ -160,9 +200,8 @@ Same as .BR \-\-list\-supported , but outputs the supported hardware in MediaWiki syntax, so that it can be -easily pasted into the wiki page at -.nh -.BR http://www.flashrom.org/ . +easily pasted into the +.URLB https://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware "supported hardware wiki page" . Please note that MediaWiki output is not compiled in by default. .TP .B "\-p, \-\-programmer <name>[:parameter[,parameter[,parameter]]]" @@ -452,9 +491,9 @@ .B BUGS section). The embedded controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. -.nh -.B http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops -has more information. For example the EC firmware sometimes resides on the same +More information is +.URLB https://flashrom.org/Laptops "in the wiki" . +For example the EC firmware sometimes resides on the same flash chip as the host firmware. While flashrom tries to change the contents of that memory the EC might need to fetch new instructions or data from it and could stop working correctly. Probing for and reading from the chip may also @@ -480,10 +519,9 @@ to tell flashrom (at your own risk) that it is not running on a laptop. .SS .BR "dummy " programmer -The dummy programmer operates on a buffer in memory only. It provides a safe -and fast way to test various aspects of flashrom and is mainly used in -development and while debugging. -.sp +.IP +The dummy programmer operates on a buffer in memory only. It provides a safe and fast way to test various +aspects of flashrom and is mainly used in development and while debugging. It is able to emulate some chips to a certain degree (basic identify/read/erase/write operations work). .sp @@ -599,6 +637,7 @@ .BR "nic3com" , " nicrealtek" , " nicnatsemi" , " nicintel", " nicintel_eeprom"\ , " nicintel_spi" , " gfxnvidia" , " ogp_spi" , " drkaiser" , " satasii"\ , " satamv" , " atahpt", " atavia " and " it8212 " programmers +.IP These programmers have an option to specify the PCI address of the card your want to use, which must be specified if more than one card supported by the selected programmer is installed in your system. The syntax is @@ -619,6 +658,7 @@ .B "flashrom \-p nic3com:pci=05:04.0" .SS .BR "atavia " programmer +.IP Due to the mysterious address handling of the VIA VT6421A controller the user can specify an offset with the .sp .B " flashrom \-p atavia:offset=addr" @@ -627,10 +667,10 @@ .B addr will be interpreted as usual (leading 0x (0) for hexadecimal (octal) values, or else decimal). For more information please see -.nh -.B http://flashrom.org/VT6421A +.URLB https://flashrom.org/VT6421A "its wiki page" . .SS .BR "nicintel_eeprom " programmer +.IP This is the first programmer module in flashrom that does not provide access to NOR flash chips but EEPROMs mounted on gigabit Ethernet cards based on Intel's 82580 NIC. Because EEPROMs normally do not announce their size nor allow to be identified, the controller relies on correct size values written to predefined addresses @@ -639,6 +679,7 @@ M95128, M95256 and OnSemi (Catalyst) CAT25CS128. .SS .BR "ft2232_spi " programmer +.IP An optional parameter specifies the controller type and channel/interface/port it should support. For that you have to use the .sp @@ -682,6 +723,7 @@ syntax. .SS .BR "serprog " programmer +.IP A mandatory parameter specifies either a serial device (and baud rate) or an IP/port combination for communicating with the programmer. The device/baud combination has to start with @@ -711,6 +753,7 @@ in the source distribution. .SS .BR "buspirate_spi " programmer +.IP A required .B dev parameter specifies the Bus Pirate device node and an optional @@ -735,12 +778,13 @@ .B state can be .BR on " or " off . -More information about the Bus Pirate pull-up resistors and their purpose is available at -.nh -.BR "http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Practical_guide_to_Bus_Pirate_pull-up_r… " . +More information about the Bus Pirate pull-up resistors and their purpose is available +.URLB "http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Practical_guide_to_Bus_Pirate_pull-up_r…" \ +"in a guide by dangerousprototypes" . Only the external supply voltage (Vpu) is supported as of this writing. .SS .BR "pickit2_spi " programmer +.IP An optional .B voltage parameter specifies the voltage the PICkit2 should use. The default unit is Volt if no unit is specified. @@ -769,6 +813,7 @@ (in Hz). The default is a frequency of 1 MHz. .SS .BR "dediprog " programmer +.IP An optional .B voltage parameter specifies the voltage the Dediprog should use. The default unit is @@ -819,6 +864,7 @@ to select target chip 1 or 2 respectively. The default is target chip 1. .SS .BR "rayer_spi " programmer +.IP The default I/O base address used for the parallel port is 0x378 and you can use the optional .B iobase @@ -844,19 +890,16 @@ STK200/300, " wiggler " for the Macraigor Wiggler, or " xilinx " for the Xilinx Parallel Cable III (DLC 5)." .sp More information about the RayeR hardware is available at -.nh -.BR "http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm " . +.URLB "http://rayer.g6.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm" "RayeR's website" . The Altera ByteBlasterMV datasheet can be obtained from -.nh -.BR "http://www.altera.co.jp/literature/ds/dsbytemv.pdf " . +.URLB "http://www.altera.co.jp/literature/ds/dsbytemv.pdf" Altera . For more information about the Macraigor Wiggler see -.nh -.BR "http://www.macraigor.com/wiggler.htm " . +.URLB "http://www.macraigor.com/wiggler.htm" "their company homepage" . The schematic of the Xilinx DLC 5 was published in -.nh -.BR "http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/xtp029.pdf " . +.URLB "http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/xtp029.pdf" "a Xilinx user guide" . .SS .BR "pony_spi " programmer +.IP The serial port (like /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyUSB0 on Linux or COM3 on windows) is specified using the mandatory .B dev @@ -867,8 +910,7 @@ parameter accepts the values "si_prog" (default) or "serbang". .sp Information about the SI-Prog adapter can be found at -.nh -.BR "http://www.lancos.com/siprogsch.html " . +.URLB "http://www.lancos.com/siprogsch.html" "its website" . .sp An example call to flashrom is .sp @@ -878,6 +920,7 @@ this slows down operation considerably. .SS .BR "ogp_spi " programmer +.IP The flash ROM chip to access must be specified with the .B rom parameter. @@ -907,6 +950,7 @@ .BR http://wiki.opengraphics.org . .SS .BR "linux_spi " programmer +.IP You have to specify the SPI controller to use with the .sp .B " flashrom \-p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidevX.Y" @@ -925,6 +969,7 @@ Please note that the linux_spi driver only works on Linux. .SS .BR "mstarddc_spi " programmer +.IP The Display Data Channel (DDC) is an I2C bus present on VGA and DVI connectors, that allows exchanging informations between a computer and attached displays. Its most common uses are getting display capabilities through EDID (at I2C address 0x50) and sending commands to the display using the DDC/CI protocol (at address @@ -1024,7 +1069,7 @@ .B buspirate_spi needs userspace access to a serial port. .sp -.BR dediprog ", " ft2232_spi " and " usbblaster_spi and " pickit2_spi +.BR dediprog ", " ft2232_spi ", " usbblaster_spi " and " pickit2_spi need access to the USB device via libusb. .sp .B dummy @@ -1034,7 +1079,7 @@ .BR gfxnvidia ", " drkaiser ", " satasii ", " satamv ", " atahpt" and " atavia have to be run as superuser/root, and need additional raw access permission. .sp -.BR serprog ", " buspirate_spi ", " dediprog ", " usbblaster_spi " and " ft2232_spi and " pickit2_spi +.BR serprog ", " buspirate_spi ", " dediprog ", " usbblaster_spi ", " ft2232_spi " and " pickit2_spi can be run as normal user on most operating systems if appropriate device permissions are set. .sp @@ -1047,23 +1092,22 @@ .B "/etc/rc.securelevel" and rebooting, or rebooting into single user mode. .SH BUGS -Please report any bugs to the flashrom mailing list at -.B "<flashrom(a)flashrom.org>" +Please report any bugs to the +.MTOB "flashrom(a)flashrom.org" "flashrom mailing list" . .sp We recommend to subscribe first at -.sp -.B " http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom" +.URLB "https://flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom" "" . .sp Many of the developers communicate via the .B "#flashrom" IRC channel on .BR chat.freenode.net . +If you don't have an IRC client, you can use the +.URLB http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=flashrom "freenode webchat" . You are welcome to join and ask questions, send us bug and success reports there too. Please provide a way to contact you later (e.g.\& a mail address) and be -patient if there is no immediate reaction. Also, we provide a pastebin service -at -.nh -.B http://paste.flashrom.org +patient if there is no immediate reaction. Also, we provide a +.URLB https://paste.flashrom.org "pastebin service" that is very useful when you want to share logs etc.\& without spamming the channel. .SS @@ -1078,8 +1122,8 @@ .B internal programmer subsection of the .B PROGRAMMER-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -section and the information in our wiki at -.BR "http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops " . +section and the information +.URLB "https://flashrom.org/Laptops" "in our wiki" . .SS One-time programmable (OTP) memory and unique IDs .sp @@ -1174,8 +1218,10 @@ .br some others, please see the flashrom svn changelog for details. .br -All still active authors can be reached via email at <flashrom(a)flashrom.org>. +All still active authors can be reached via +.MTOB "flashrom(a)flashrom.org" "the mailing list" . .PP -This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe(a)hermann-uwe.de>, -Carl-Daniel Hailfinger and others. +This manual page was written by +.MTOB "uwe(a)hermann-uwe.de" "Uwe Hermann" , +Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, Stefan Tauner and others. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later). Modified: trunk/flashrom.c ============================================================================== --- trunk/flashrom.c Thu Jan 7 19:13:07 2016 (r1912) +++ trunk/flashrom.c Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) @@ -1787,7 +1787,7 @@ void print_banner(void) { msg_ginfo("flashrom is free software, get the source code at " - "http://www.flashrom.org\n"); + "https://flashrom.org\n"); msg_ginfo("\n"); } Modified: trunk/ichspi.c ============================================================================== --- trunk/ichspi.c Thu Jan 7 19:13:07 2016 (r1912) +++ trunk/ichspi.c Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) @@ -1692,8 +1692,8 @@ ich_spi_rw_restricted |= ich9_handle_frap(tmp, i); if (ich_spi_rw_restricted) msg_pwarn("Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is " - "most likely\ndue to an active ME. Please see http://flashrom.org/ME " - "for details.\n"); + "most likely\ndue to an active ME. Please see " + "https://flashrom.org/ME for details.\n"); } /* Handle PR registers */ Modified: trunk/internal.c ============================================================================== --- trunk/internal.c Thu Jan 7 19:13:07 2016 (r1912) +++ trunk/internal.c Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ msg_perr("Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we\n" "recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller\n" "(EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.\n" - "See the manpage and http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.\n\n" + "See the manpage and https://flashrom.org/Laptops for details.\n\n" "If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop\n" "and write may brick your laptop.\n" "Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight\n" Modified: trunk/mcp6x_spi.c ============================================================================== --- trunk/mcp6x_spi.c Thu Jan 7 19:13:07 2016 (r1912) +++ trunk/mcp6x_spi.c Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ /* Driver for the NVIDIA MCP6x/MCP7x MCP6X_SPI controller. * Based on clean room reverse engineered docs from - * http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-December/001180.html + * https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-December/001180.html * created by Michael Karcher. */ Modified: trunk/print.c ============================================================================== --- trunk/print.c Thu Jan 7 19:13:07 2016 (r1912) +++ trunk/print.c Thu Jan 14 23:47:55 2016 (r1913) @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ B("ASRock", "960GM-GS3 FX", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=960GM-GS3%20FX", NULL), B("ASRock", "A330GC", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A330GC", NULL), B("ASRock", "A770CrossFire", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A770CrossFire", NULL), - B("ASRock", "A780FullHD", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A780FullHD", "While flashrom is working correctly, there might be problems with the firmware images themselves. Please see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-July/009600.html for details."), + B("ASRock", "A780FullHD", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A780FullHD", "While flashrom is working correctly, there might be problems with the firmware images themselves. Please see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-July/009600.html for details."), B("ASRock", "ALiveNF6G-DVI", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ALiveNF6G-DVI", NULL), B("ASRock", "AM2NF6G-VSTA", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=AM2NF6G-VSTA", NULL), B("ASRock", "ConRoeXFire-eSATA2", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?model=conroexfire-esata2", NULL), @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ B("ASRock", "IMB-180-H", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-A180-H", NULL), B("ASRock", "K7S41", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7S41", NULL), B("ASRock", "K7S41GX", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7S41GX", NULL), - B("ASRock", "K7VT4A+", BAD, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7VT4A%2b", "No chip found, probably due to flash translation. http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-August/000393.html"), + B("ASRock", "K7VT4A+", BAD, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7VT4A%2b", "No chip found, probably due to flash translation. https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-August/000393.html"), B("ASRock", "K8S8X", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K8S8X", NULL), B("ASRock", "M3A790GXH/128M", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=M3A790GXH/128M", NULL), B("ASRock", "N61P-S", OK, "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=N61P-S", NULL), @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ B("ASUS", "M2N32-SLI Deluxe", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2N32SLI_DeluxeWireless_Edition/", NULL), B("ASUS", "M2N68-VM", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2Plus/M2N68VM/", NULL), B("ASUS", "M2NBP-VM CSM", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NBPVM_CSM/", NULL), - B("ASUS", "M2N-E", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NE/", "If the machine doesn't come up again after flashing, try resetting the NVRAM(CMOS). The MAC address of the onboard network card will change to the value stored in the new image, so backup the old address first. See http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-November/000879.html"), + B("ASUS", "M2N-E", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NE/", "If the machine doesn't come up again after flashing, try resetting the NVRAM(CMOS). The MAC address of the onboard network card will change to the value stored in the new image, so backup the old address first. See https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-November/000879.html"), B("ASUS", "M2N-E SLI", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NE_SLI/", NULL), B("ASUS", "M2N-MX SE Plus", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2NMX_SE_Plus/", NULL), B("ASUS", "M2NPV-VM", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NPVVM/", NULL), @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ B("ASUS", "M4N68T V2", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/M4N68T_V2/", NULL), B("ASUS", "M4N78 PRO", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2Plus/M4N78_PRO/", NULL), B("ASUS", "M4N78 SE", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2Plus/M4N78_SE/", NULL), - B("ASUS", "M5A78L-M LX", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A78LM_LX/", "The MAC address of the onboard LAN NIC is stored in flash, hence overwritten by flashrom; see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-May/009200.html"), + B("ASUS", "M5A78L-M LX", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A78LM_LX/", "The MAC address of the onboard LAN NIC is stored in flash, hence overwritten by flashrom; see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-May/009200.html"), B("ASUS", "M5A97 (rev. 1.0)", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/M5A97/", NULL), B("ASUS", "M5A99X EVO", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A99X_EVO/", NULL), B("ASUS", "Maximus IV Extreme", BAD, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/Maximus_IV_Extreme/", "Probing works (Macronix MX25L3205, 4096 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), @@ -716,12 +716,12 @@ B("ASUS", "P5PE-VM", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5PEVM/", NULL), B("ASUS", "P5QPL-AM", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5QPLAM/", NULL), B("ASUS", "P5VD1-X", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5VD1X/", NULL), - B("ASUS", "P5VD2-MX", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5VD2MX/", "The MAC address of the onboard LAN NIC is stored in flash, hence overwritten by flashrom; see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-March/009014.html"), + B("ASUS", "P5VD2-MX", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5VD2MX/", "The MAC address of the onboard LAN NIC is stored in flash, hence overwritten by flashrom; see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-March/009014.html"), B("ASUS", "P6T SE", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T_SE/", NULL), B("ASUS", "P6T Deluxe", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T_Deluxe/", NULL), B("ASUS", "P6T Deluxe V2", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T_Deluxe_V2/", NULL), B("ASUS", "P7H57D-V EVO", OK, "http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1156/P7H57DV_EVO/", NULL), - B("ASUS", "P7H55-M LX", BAD, NULL, "flashrom works correctly, but GbE LAN is nonworking (probably due to a missing/bogus MAC address; see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2011-July/007432.html and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1534389 for a possible workaround)"), + B("ASUS", "P7H55-M LX", BAD, NULL, "flashrom works correctly, but GbE LAN is nonworking (probably due to a missing/bogus MAC address; see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2011-July/007432.html and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1534389 for a possible workaround)"), B("ASUS", "P8B-E/4L", BAD, NULL, "Probing works (Winbond W25Q64, 8192 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), B("ASUS", "P8B WS", BAD, NULL, "Probing works (Winbond W25Q32, 4096 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), B("ASUS", "P8B75-M LE", BAD, NULL, "Probing works (2x 8192 kB via hwseq), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ B("Elitegroup", "P6VAP-A+", OK, NULL, NULL), B("Elitegroup", "RS485M-M", OK, NULL, NULL), B("Emerson", "ATCA-7360", OK, "http://www.emerson.com/sites/Network_Power/en-US/Products/Product_Detail/Pr…", NULL), - B("EPoX", "EP-3PTA", BAD, NULL, "Missing board enable (W83627HF/F/HG/G), see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-April/009043.html"), + B("EPoX", "EP-3PTA", BAD, NULL, "Missing board enable (W83627HF/F/HG/G), see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-April/009043.html"), B("EPoX", "EP-8K5A2", OK, "http://www.epox.com/product.asp?ID=EP-8K5A2", NULL), B("EPoX", "EP-8NPA7I", OK, "http://www.epox.com/product.asp?ID=EP-8NPA7I", NULL), B("EPoX", "EP-8RDA3+", OK, "http://www.epox.com/product.asp?ID=EP-8RDA3plus", NULL), @@ -888,24 +888,24 @@ B("HP", "Vectra VL400", OK, "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c000…", NULL), B("HP", "Vectra VL420 SFF", OK, "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c000…", NULL), B("HP", "xw4400 (0A68h)", BAD, "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c007…", "ICH7 with SPI lock down, BIOS lock, flash block detection (SST25VF080B); see http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=686"), - B("HP", "xw6400", BAD, NULL, "No chip found, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-March/009006.html"), - B("HP", "xw9300", BAD, "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&pro…", "Missing board enable, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-February/008862.html"), + B("HP", "xw6400", BAD, NULL, "No chip found, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-March/009006.html"), + B("HP", "xw9300", BAD, "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&pro…", "Missing board enable, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-February/008862.html"), B("HP", "xw9400", OK, "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&pro…", "Boot block is write protected unless the solder points next to F2 are shorted."), - B("HP", "Z400 Workstation (0AE4h)", BAD, NULL, "ICH10R with BIOS lock enable and a protected range PRBAD, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-June/009350.html"), + B("HP", "Z400 Workstation (0AE4h)", BAD, NULL, "ICH10R with BIOS lock enable and a protected range PRBAD, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-June/009350.html"), B("IBASE", "MB899", OK, "http://www.ibase-i.com.tw/2009/mb899.html", NULL), B("IBM", "x3455", OK, "http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/rack/x3455/index.html", NULL), B("IEI", "PICOe-9452", OK, "http://www.ieiworld.com/product_groups/industrial/content.aspx?keyword=WSB&…", NULL), B("Intel", "D201GLY", OK, "http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d201gly/index.htm", NULL), B("Intel", "D2700MUD", BAD, "http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/emea/eng/motherboards/desktop/D27…", "SMM protection enabled"), - B("Intel", "D425KT", BAD, "http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/de…", "NM10 with SPI lock down, BIOS lock, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-January/008600.html"), + B("Intel", "D425KT", BAD, "http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/de…", "NM10 with SPI lock down, BIOS lock, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-January/008600.html"), B("Intel", "D865GLC", BAD, NULL, "ICH5 with BIOS lock enable, see http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=775"), B("Intel", "D945GCNL", OK, NULL, NULL), B("Intel", "DG45ID", BAD, "http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/dg45id/dg45id-overview.h…", "Probing works (Winbond W25x32, 4096 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME is locked."), B("Intel", "DQ965GF", BAD, NULL, "Probing enables Hardware Sequencing (behind that hides a SST SST25VF016B, 2048 kB). Parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME is locked (and the platform data region seems to be bogus)."), B("Intel", "DG965OT", BAD, NULL, "Probing enables Hardware Sequencing (behind that hides a SST SST25VF080B, 1024 kB). Parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME is locked (and the platform data region seems to be bogus)."), - B("Intel", "DH61AG ", BAD, NULL, "H61 with BIOS lock enable and locked ME region, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-June/009417.html"), - B("Intel", "DH67CF", BAD, NULL, "H67 with BIOS lock enable and locked ME region, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2011-September/007789.html"), - B("Intel", "DH67CL", BAD, NULL, "H67 with BIOS lock enable and locked ME region, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010112.html"), + B("Intel", "DH61AG ", BAD, NULL, "H61 with BIOS lock enable and locked ME region, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-June/009417.html"), + B("Intel", "DH67CF", BAD, NULL, "H67 with BIOS lock enable and locked ME region, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2011-September/007789.html"), + B("Intel", "DH67CL", BAD, NULL, "H67 with BIOS lock enable and locked ME region, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010112.html"), B("Intel", "DN2800MT (Marshalltown)", BAD, NULL, "BIOS locked via BIOS_CNTL."), B("Intel", "DQ45CB", BAD, NULL, "Probing works (Winbond W25Q32, 4096 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), B("Intel", "DQ77MK", BAD, NULL, "Q77 with BIOS lock enable and locked ME region, see http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1603"), @@ -972,13 +972,13 @@ B("MSI", "MS-7548 (Aspen-GL8E)", OK, "http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01635688&lc=en&cc=us&d…", NULL), B("MSI", "MS-7551 (KA780G)", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/KA780G.html", NULL), B("MSI", "MS-7596 (785GM-E51)", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/785GM-E51.html", NULL), - B("MSI", "MS-7597 (GF615M-P33)", BAD, NULL, "Missing board enable/SIO support (Fintek F71889), see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-March/008956.html"), + B("MSI", "MS-7597 (GF615M-P33)", BAD, NULL, "Missing board enable/SIO support (Fintek F71889), see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-March/008956.html"), B("MSI", "MS-7599 (870-C45)", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/870-C45.html", NULL), B("MSI", "MS-7613 (Iona-GL8E)", BAD, "http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02014355&lc=en&cc=dk&d…", "Probing works (Winbond W25Q64, 8192 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), B("MSI", "MS-7635 (H55M-ED55)", BAD, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/H55M-ED55.html", "Probing works (Winbond W25Q64, 8192 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), B("MSI", "MS-7640 (890FXA-GD70)",OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/890FXA-GD70.html", NULL), B("MSI", "MS-7642 (890GXM-G65)", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/890GXM-G65.html", NULL), - B("MSI", "MS-7676 (H67MA-ED55(B3))", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/H67MA-ED55--B3-.html", "Seems to work fine basically, but user reported (hopefully unrelated) buggy behavior of the board after a firmware upgrade. See http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-January/008547.html"), + B("MSI", "MS-7676 (H67MA-ED55(B3))", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/H67MA-ED55--B3-.html", "Seems to work fine basically, but user reported (hopefully unrelated) buggy behavior of the board after a firmware upgrade. See https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-January/008547.html"), B("MSI", "MS-7676 (Z68MA-G45 (B3))", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z68MA-G45--B3-.html", NULL), B("MSI", "MS-7696 (A75MA-G55)", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/A75MA-G55.html", NULL), B("MSI", "MS-7698 (E350IA-E45)", OK, "http://www.msi.com/product/mb/E350IA-E45.html", NULL), @@ -1133,11 +1133,11 @@ B("Clevo", "P150HM", BAD, "http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/prodinfo_2.asp?productid=307", "Probing works (Macronix MX25L3205, 4096 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."), B("Dell", "Inspiron 1420", OK, NULL, NULL), B("Dell", "Latitude CPi A366XT", BAD, "http://www.coreboot.org/Dell_Latitude_CPi_A366XT", "The laptop immediately powers off if you try to hot-swap the chip. It's not yet tested if write/erase would work on this laptop."), - B("Dell", "Vostro 3700", BAD, NULL, "Locked ME, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-May/009197.html."), - B("Dell", "Latitude E6520", BAD, NULL, "Locked ME, see http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-June/009420.html."), + B("Dell", "Vostro 3700", BAD, NULL, "Locked ME, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-May/009197.html."), + B("Dell", "Latitude E6520", BAD, NULL, "Locked ME, see https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-June/009420.html."), B("Elitegroup", "A928", OK, NULL, "Bootsector is locked and needs to be skipped with a layout file (writeable address range is 00000000:0003bfff)."), B("HP/Compaq", "EliteBook 8560p", BAD, NULL, "SPI lock down, SMM protection, PR in BIOS region, read-only descriptor, locked ME region."), - B("HP/Compaq", "nx9005", BAD, "http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11602_na/11602_na.HTML", "Shuts down when probing for a chip. http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2010-May/003321.html"), + B("HP/Compaq", "nx9005", BAD, "http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11602_na/11602_na.HTML", "Shuts down when probing for a chip. https://flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2010-May/003321.html"), B("HP/Compaq", "nx9010", BAD, "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us…", "Hangs upon '''flashrom -V''' (needs hard power-cycle then)."), B("IBM/Lenovo", "ThinkPad T40p", BAD, "http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T40p", NULL), B("IBM/Lenovo", "ThinkPad T420", BAD, "http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T420", "Probing works (Macronix MX25L6405, 8192 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs) and ME is locked. Also, a Protected Range is locking the top range of the BIOS region (presumably the boot block)."),

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FOSDEM deadlines now!
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hi, we obviously want to participate in FOSDEM. https://fosdem.org/2016/news/2015-09-24-call-for-participation/ ACT NOW! Some deadlines already expired. Some can still be managed. Main track talks: Deadline 2015-10-30 (10 days left) One hour of entertainment, huge audience. Anyone up for the challenge? Stands: Deadline 2015-11-13 (24 days left) I can send in the proposal if I'm not going to be alone there. How many tables do we want for our stand/booth(s)? Who is coming? Lightning talks: Deadline 2015-11-27 (38 days left) Short and to the point. Your 15-minute elevator pitch. Can you sell the project? All deadlines are at 23.59 UTC Developer room proposal: Deadline EXPIRED Maybe some developer room will accept talks/demos from us. Regards, Carl-Daniel

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BX100: there is a Linux tool to flash ROM images through any SATA adapter
by Elmar Stellnberger 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi everyone, Lately I have updated the firmware of my BX100 SSD drive with the boot CD as provided by http://www.crucial.com/support/ssd. As it turned out the boot CD is powered by Linux and the busybox the firmware image being provided under /opt/firmware/MU02/1.bin in /boot/core.gz which is a gzipped cpio file. Would anyone care to analyse this media? I would love to see HDD/SSD firmware flashing being supported by flashrom through some more SATA controllers. Elmar P.S.: if my hint should not have been particularely helpful I would like to know about that as well ...

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Donations in the form of personal bug bounties
by R. Diez 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi all: It looks like flashrom development leaves a lot to be desired, especially in the form of unmerged patches. I have seen on the website that donations are not accepted because of the extra paperwork required. Would something in the way of bug bounties help? I would imagine that those could be payable directly to the person that actually commits the changes, so maybe removing the need for an organisation to exist. I haven't got any experience in this subject, but these sites look good: www.bountysource.com freedomsponsors.org I wonder if enough people would actually come together for a particular bug to be worth fixing in this project. I understand that money is not the ideal solution, as it can steer trouble in open-source projects. However, if not enough volunteers show up, what are the alternatives? Forking the project makes little sense (at least in my usage case), and buying a commercial programmer is no fun either. Regards, rdiez

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flashrom as programmer slow because it reads the whole SPI Flash contents before writing anything
by R. Diez 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi all: I am trying to use flashrom with a fast generic FTDI FT2232H adapter as an SPI Flash programmer in a small production line. The SPI Flash chip can hold 8 MiB of data, but we are only using the first 512 KiB of it. I found flashrom to be surprisingly slow. I started digging and the step "Reading old flash chip contents..." is taking minutes. It looks like flashrom is reading the whole contents before writing anything at all. I am using 7.5 MHz at the moment. I cannot pump up the frequency too much, as I am still using flywires to connect the SPI flash chip to the programmer. I know that the flash chips are empty (0xFF), so flashrom does not need to read anything beforehand. If it is going to read anything, the first 512 KiB would suffice, because I am not touching anything else. I found the following in the source code: int read_all_first = 1; /* FIXME: Make this configurable. */ I also found the following message about it: http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2011-December/008440.html I guess the corresponding command-line argument is still missing. I cannot tell how hard it would be to code and test the missing parts. The "Development Guidelines" are several pages long. There are very many unmerged patches in the pipeline, and some of them are years old. The repository is in Subversion. In summary, not very encouraging. Does anybody know of some fork or alternative that does not read everything before writing any data at all? Please copy me on any answers because I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Regards, rdiez

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help
by Eugen Gostovt 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

eugen@eugen:~$ sudo flashrom -w 61PCM630.BSS flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.13.4-031304-generic (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP61". Enabling flash write... This chipset is not really supported yet. Guesswork... SPI on this chipset is WIP. Please report any success or failure by mailing us the verbose output to flashrom(a)flashrom.org, thanks! Mapping NVIDIA MCP6x SPI at 0xfec80000, unaligned size 0x544. Please send the output of "flashrom -V" to flashrom(a)flashrom.org with your board name: flashrom -V as the subject to help us finish support for your chipset. Thanks. OK. Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L8005" (1024 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff00000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Hello! Is my BIOS actually? Thank you. -- Eugen Gostovt

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Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Pimp the manpage to create nicer hyperlinks and HTML output.
by Stefan Tauner 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:08:21 +0100 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Also, add a target to the makefile to build a flashrom.8.html with groff. > > FIXME: svn:ignore for the html > Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner(a)alumni.tuwien.ac.at> FIXME: make it work on NetBSD and OpenBSD. While their groff creates the html correctly the man page itself is not rendered correctly. Instead it creates things like: Please report any bugs to the $@ <MTO> We recommend to subscribe first at $@ <URL> So sadly, my checks are insufficient to detect systems where this works (because they kind of announce they do while they dont). I am trying to fix this/get help from BSD people but since the produced code is actually correct I'd rather commit it anyway and let them fix their groff... I'd rather host flashrom.8.html sooner than later. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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Successfull READ and WRITE on W25X64
by Manuel Dejonghe 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hi all, I just wanted to report success (as the tool requests) for reading and writing to a winbond W25X64VFIG during installation of libreboot on my lenovo thinkpad x200. The programmer I used was a RasPi 2 linux_spi wired directly with soldered wires. cheers, lImbus -- Manuel Dejonghe ******************************* PrimeKey Labs GmbH Krantzstr. 7 (Entrance B) 52070 Aachen Germany ********************************

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