Hi Nico,
Thanks for the quick response and patch. I tested and the chip is now correctly recognized. I read-and-verified and the reading seems to be OK, so it's just that the contents are not what I expected. But at least I know the flashrom part is OK.
Thanks again,
Hilco
Op 28/05/2022 om 18:40 schreef Nico Huber:
Hello Hilco,
On 24.05.22 17:48, Hilco de Lathouder via flashrom wrote:
I have a Spansion chip I want to read but it seems not supported by flashrom. I can connect and read JEDEC ID with BusPirate: it says 01-60-18 which corresponds with the Spansion S25FL128L (specs available online). Flashrom does not detect it.
I wrote patches to add support[1]. Let me know if you want to test them and need help to apply patches and build flashrom.
I tried reading it while forcing any of the other 128Mbit Spansion chips, but could not make anything of the rom with Binwalk.
However, this should have worked already. Reading works the same for virtually all SPI NOR flash chips.
What would be the best strategy to get to the contents of this chip?
First thing to test is if the reading is reliable (flashrom can't tell because there are no integrity checks on the SPI bus). You can read once and then immediately run the same command with `-v/--verify` instead of `-r/--read`. If it doesn't say "VERIFIED", the physical setup is likely to blame. Common issues are long wires from programmer to flash chip, we recommend <20cm. If the flash chip is on some kind of mainboard, that may also cause issues[2].
Nico
[1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/64747 [2] https://flashrom.org/ISP