On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 06:50:45AM +0100, Putlinuxonit wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to report than an Asus A7V600-X with bios 1009 works with flashrom
> 0.9.0 stable. The stock version found on the latest stable realease of
> systemrescuecd 1.2.3.
>
> There are some caveats however...
>
> find below a few dumps for your review.
>
> root@sysresccd% ./flashrom
> *flashrom v0.9.0*
> No coreboot table found.
> *Found chipset "VIA VT8237"*, enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> *Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB, LPC,FWH)* at physical address
> 0xfffc0000.
> No operations were specified.
>
> The strange thing is that when i tried using the bleeding edge r694 i get
> the following
>
> root@sysresccd /root % ./flashrom -w fimrwarea7v600-x.old
> *flashrom v0.9.0-r694*
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB, LPC,FWH) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... Programming page: ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000!
> Expected=0xff, Read=0x03, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00003fff:
> 0x33a6
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at
irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or
> mail
flashrom@flashrom.org
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
>
> i then use the stock 0.9.0 version to reprogramme and i get this
>
> root@sysresccd /root % flashrom -w fimrwarea7v600-x.old
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Programming page: 0015 at address: 0x0003c000
>
> i* verify if it's written ok*
> root@sysresccd /root % flashrom -v fimrwarea7v600-x.old
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
> root@sysresccd /root % flashrom -R
> *flashrom v0.9.0*
>
>
> so basically,
> When i use the stock v0.9.0 to dump and write back the firmware on my
> A7v600-x, everything is fine.
>
> when i try to use the current svn. r694, it fails.
>
> i had to reflash with stable 0.9.0 after the r694 failed. I've successfully
> rebooted and verified no damage done to motherboard.
>
> interestingly, I downloaded the latest version of the bios (1009) off asus
> website, same version as i'm running and when i unzip it yeilds an *.awd ( i
> guess award) file.
>
> This file is supposed to be the same version as the one i'm running but when
> i try both stock v0.9.0 and r694 on it. they both fail. Beats me. maybe the
> awardflasher file format is different from what I get when i do* "flashrom
> -r firmware-old.bin"*
> *
> *
> I've also compared md5 checksums on both the firmware-old.bin and the one
> downloaded off the asus website but they both give different results even
> though they are meant to be the same version (1009).
>
>
>
> Anyway, hats-off to the devs for all the good work.
>
>
> idlogin
>
> --
>
> attachments
>
> I've attached flashrom -V dumps for both 0.9.0 and r694
> latest Asus bios for A7v600-X