Hello Everyone,
One good idea came up recently: to organize a “Flashrom Developers Meeting”
so that we can talk to each other, discuss current development and future
plans! The idea is, specifically, to have it regularly - and once a month
seems just about right.
The attendance will be, obviously, entirely optional, however one thing is
important: to take notes from what has been discussed (and notes should be
public).
The main two questions are: when? (time) and which software to use.
Time is a tricky question, and it depends on who is going to attend the
meeting. We can optimize either for EU-US or for EU-AU. I can say for sure,
we have at least one person from AU who is going to attend ;) (that’s me).
If it turns out that we have people all over the planet who want to attend,
and there is no one time that suits all, then as a plan B we can alternate
between two options. That will be time1 and time2 alternating.
Software. What do people use and like? I am used to Google Meet, and don’t
know much about other options.
What do people think of the idea? Let’s discuss!
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Anastasia.
Hello,
I am trying to fix a bricked motherboard (Z170A Mpower Gaming Titanium).
The motherboard does have a MX25L12873F (not seen on your supported list) but does have the MX25L12805D and MX25L12835F/MX25L12845E/MX25L12865E as similar chips.
I am using flashrom on a Raspberry Pi 3 and had gotten quite far using the forums until I came across "ERASE FAILED".
I am able to read the chip, but I am unable to write as it has this Erase Failed appears every time.
I'm not sure if there is a work around. I've seen the -f force erase but I'm not aware how to use this function.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Dean
Good Day Flashrom People!
As you might know already, we are currently preparing an application for
GSoC 2022 (also known as Google Summer of Code, FAQ
<https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq>). We have gathered a
list of Project Ideas, and it's time to call for Mentors!
If you are interested in being a Mentor, please let us know. If you want to
help, but not sure you can be a Mentor yourself, you can be a secondary
Mentor. Or you can help by doing code reviews.
Have a look into our Projects ideas, are you interested to Mentor one of
these projects?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AxMobB2v8Dv2uUwZPZ_vCmmONYDJuliHcnjfWOs…
Or maybe you have another project idea that you want to mentor? Great!
GSoC runs by a timeline
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline, check that dates
are OK for you.
How to let us know if you are interested: Reply All to this email. If you
are in doubt, you can contact me (Anastasia/aklm) directly.
Some more useful information:
Mentor responsibilities (short)
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/responsibilities#mentor…
Mentor guides (long, lots of details)
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask! ;)
Your GSoC Org Admin,
Anastasia.
Hello Everyone,
I am planning to submit Flashrom’s GSoC application within the next few
days.
Here are the most important resources that we have prepared for application:
Projects Ideas
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AxMobB2v8Dv2uUwZPZ_vCmmONYDJuliHcnjfWOs…
Project Proposal Template
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DSg1FykuI7Z3JDY1Qtk8C6JjvpsYISMEwyV4932…
Contributors Info and Guidelines
https://www.flashrom.org/GSoC
All these are resources for potential contributors, so that’s public and
links can be shared with anyone interested.
Application asks for *links* to resources, so we can modify/improve the
content at any point, even after the app is submitted. We do want the
resources to look nice when applying, of course :) but we can do
modifications even later.
Let me know if you have feedback/suggestions, thank you!
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Anastasia.
sudo flashrom --force --programmer ch341a_spi -w gb56c
flashrom v1.2 on Linux 5.11.0-7633-generic (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
Found GigaDevice flash chip "GD25Q40(B)" (512 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version,
please email a report to flashrom(a)flashrom.org if any of the above
operations
work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log
file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and
mention
which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line.
Thanks for your help!
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
Have used your tool to rescue many things with my handy ch341a
Thank you for your work.