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some news
by Anastasia Klimchuk 26 May '23

26 May '23

Dear flashrom community, I have just banned Nico Huber from flashrom gerrit and mailing list. This is a result of what was happening on flashrom during the last ~3 years. Nico has a long track record of bullying other developers, attacking people on public channels (Gerrit and mailing list), writing long toxic comments which blocked other people's work, and lying in all public channels. During recent years, Nico was the reason why several talented and motivated contributors left the project. It is really sad (if not tragic) that a talented engineer, with a lot of technical knowledge and experience, annihilates all of that by being unable to work with other people, and by refusing to take advice and learn. As you all know, Nico now has his own fork (aka flashrom-stable) and I had some hope that he will focus on that and we will get back to normal, peaceful and constructive work. Unfortunately, Nico decided to make a comeback, and started adding himself to flashrom patches and commenting on patches. I do not accept bullying and lying, and I don't want this in the flashrom community. No amount of technical expertise justifies bullying other people and lying in public. This is my firm position. Thank you guys for everything -- Anastasia.

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ISSI Flash parts request to be added
by Johnny Chien 25 May '23

25 May '23

Hi FlashROM, We have a customer who pointed us to your organization. They asked if we could get more of our SPI NOR flash supported. Do you have a contact or person who would be able to guide us in this activity? We see the following parts supported here: [cid:image001.png@01D98CDE.B6E9BC20] Johnny Chien Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. Phone: 408.969.4647 Mobile: 408.786.8210 Fax: 408.969.4747 Email: Jchien(a)issi.com<mailto:Jchien@issi.com> Follow us on Twitter

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Unable to flash
by Stan Gosnell 25 May '23

25 May '23

Asus Chromebox CN60, flashed to SeaBios, running Linux. Running flashrom gives this output: [stan@chromebox ~]$ sudo flashrom -r -V -p internal flashrom v1.3.0 on Linux 6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64 (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). Warning: Supplied image file name starts with - coreboot table found at 0x7f73d000. Found chipset "Intel Lynx Point LP Mainstream". This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it, then please email a report to flashrom(a)flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log. Thank you! Enabling flash write... Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000fed1c000 /dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted FAILED! FATAL ERROR! Error: Programmer initialization failed. Fedora 38, current updates. I don't think the chipset is correct, but I'm going by (perhaps faulty) memory.

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flashrom dev meeting notes 25.05.2023
by Anastasia Klimchuk 25 May '23

25 May '23

# 25th May 2023, 6.00-7.00am UTC+0 Attendees: Stefan, Damien, Edward, Anastasia ## Decision summary * see notes ## Agenda * [aklm] What's left to branch 1.4 * ready to delete makefile? * only one windows programmer left, to build with meson * progress bar * feature is incomplete, we can add [experimental] to the manpage TODO * amd spi [https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/65237](https://review.coreboot.org… * renaming chain from Martin goes first * Edward's chain goes after that * new erase stuff can be better tested * let's split ichspi into two * [aklm] What is our procedure to sign the release tarballs? The process for 1.3 was rather chaotic, better have a well-defined process. * aklm needs to create the key * next meeting we sign * [aklm] let's enable erase/write optimisations by default? DONE * I want to complete this test [https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/67535](https://review.coreboot.org… * static bool use_legacy_erase_path = false breaks one unit test full_chip_erase_with_wp_dummyflasher_test_success -> FIXED * [heijligen] add Chromebook specific documentation * aklm: maybe we can collect the links to chromebook documentation pages which are publicly visible. It would be good to have a page on the website which is a collection of documentation specific to chromebooks. TODO aklm try to find out. * existing docs might be removed and re-written, so adding links won't work * we need to start a new page, and gradually add stuff * check what are the questions on the mailing list, the most common questions need to be documented first -- Anastasia.

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FAILED x230t
by Théophile Boué 24 May '23

24 May '23

Hi, First of all, thank you very much for your huge work. Now, after an update attempt on my x230t laptop, I had an issue, please find enclosed the output that led me to email you. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide me and with best regards, Théophile

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New flashrom website
by Anastasia Klimchuk 24 May '23

24 May '23

Good day everyone, Good news for the good day: we are launching the new flashrom website! doc.flashrom.org At the moment it is available by the address doc.flashrom.org, but in the very near future (think of a few weeks) it will move to primary flashrom.org. The reason for this few weeks' interval is to check everything looks good and fix small things. After the new website moves to the primary address, the old wiki website moves to wiki.flashrom.org and will be locked for editing. Wiki will be available as view-only until we migrate all the content. New website is generated by sphinx from sources that are in the tree under doc/ directory. To add or update documentation, you need to send a patch as per usual dev process. Separate wiki account is no longer needed to update the documentation. Everything is set up so that after the patch is merged into documentation, it will appear on the website shortly after. There is a doc on how to add docs with more details: https://doc.flashrom.org/how_to_add_docs.html As you can see, the new website doesn't have all of the pages migrated from the old wiki yet. This is by the plan, we will migrate the pages gradually, hopefully within this year. Everyone is very welcome to join migrating the wiki pages to doc/ files! Especially if there is a page in wiki that you own and can verify the correctness of content. Thanks a lot to everyone who was working on the new website! The idea has been around for a while, and it is so cool to see it happening! -- Anastasia.

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Hello i need you help
by 江杰松 23 May '23

23 May '23

I tried to fix a graphic card (1050ti) which is using is25wp040 but it can't using can you help me?

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same AMD FP4 issue Daniel Rozsnyó with Dell Optiplex 5055 Ryzen APU
by lame_temp_email 20 May '23

20 May '23

exact same error readout as Daniel Rozsnyó (see link below, from April 23): https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/flashrom@flashrom.org/thread/P7TQ… Could not find in documentation any indication of non/compatibility of mainboard, computer, or CPU. Would appreciate any help to confirm or deny if possible to make headway towards successful flashing. Thanks. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.

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flashrom discord channel
by Anastasia Klimchuk 20 May '23

20 May '23

Hello everyone, I wanted to share that there is a #flashrom channel on discord. It existed for a while, but I only very recently learned about it. I suspect it might be the same for many people who have no idea the channel exists. I updated the Contacts page (old and new) with the info: see https://www.flashrom.org/Contact#Discord or check the latest doc/contact.rst in your repo, and follow the invite link. The channel is on the coreboot server, so if you join you get all of coreboot and flashrom channels in one place, which is convenient. See you there, -- Anastasia.

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MX25U12873F Flash ROM Write Success
by 抗グリアジン IgG抗体 20 May '23

20 May '23

My name is gliadin. I used Flashrom to write using RayeR's RayeR_SPI. here is report. Since the circuit is a breadboard and a voltage divider with resistors, there may have been a lot of errors. However, I am satisfied because the parallel port could actually become a ROM writer. thank you. I connected the load "MX25U12873F" to a 60Ω resistor and a 200Ω voltage dividing circuit, and adjusted the voltage to around 2.0v. Others were made by connecting 4 resistors of around 2kΩ, Darlington transistor (2SC1959) power through a 1.2kΩ resistor, and connecting to GND. The four resistors are on the JSPI side (ROM side). Otherwise the ROM could not be searched. When I made a dump file of the written contents and checked the binary data with GHex, it was written firmly to the end, so I don't think there is a problem, but I will report it. sudo flashrom --programmer rayer_spi -w B350M_E7A37AMS.1O6 flashrom v1.2 on Linux 5.15.0-72-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). Using RayeR SPIPGM pinout. Found Macronix flash chip "MX25U12835F" (16384 kB, SPI) on rayer_spi. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done. Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x001cd9cf! Expected=0x46, Found=0x0d, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00ffffff: 0x1804b4 Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or mail flashrom(a)flashrom.org, thanks!

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