On 26.11.2009 19:34, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Any ideas?
superiotool finds nothing on this machine. It's i945/ICH7
Hm, yes. It seems we're missing a probe sequence for your superio or EC.
flashrom v0.9.1-r783 Found chipset "Intel ICH7M", enabling flash write... BIOS Lock Enable: disabled, BIOS Write Enable: enabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x1
Write is enabled.
BIOS Interface Lock-Down: disabled, BOOT BIOS Straps: 0x3 (LPC)
Chipset is strapped to use LPC/FWH.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
ICH7 special feature. If it is strapped to LPC/FWH, SPI is really completely disabled. You can't even probe on SPI. (Yes, we tried.)
Probing for AMIC A49LF040A, 512 KB: probe_jedec: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for PMC Pm49FL002, 256 KB: probe_jedec: id1 0x66, id2 0x51, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF003A/B, 384 KB: probe_jedec: id1 0x8b, id2 0x04, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Winbond W39V080FA, 1024 KB: probe_jedec: id1 0x02, id2 0x18, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
All probe sequences return either a parity violation for the vendor ID (there is not even a single vendor ID among all few hundred JEDEC mebers which violates parity) and are thus invalid, or at least the probe result is identical to the flash contents. Even if this was just an accident and we look up vendor ID 0x2, I don't believe AMI, National Instruments, ISOA, Optosys, Innovics Wireless, Patriot Memory, Mavrix create any BIOS flash (well, Patriot creates flash, but only the large kind for SSDs).
Given these constraints, I can almost guarantee that the flash is not directly attached to the chipset, but resides behind some sort of translator (most probably the EC). David Hendricks wanted to tackle EC recognition and flashing. No idea how far he progressed.
Regards, Carl-Daniel