Re: [flashrom] READ ERASE WRITE tested for W25X64 on buspirate_spi, ICH9M-E

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:43:31 +0100
Johannes Krampf  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have successfully tested the Winbond W25X64 flash chip (8192 kB, SPI) 
> for Probe, Read, Erase and Write operations using the buspirate_spi and 
> Intel ICH9M-E (Thinkpad T400) programmers.
>
> Testing was done with flashrom v0.9.8-r1901 on ICH9M-E and v0.9.8-r1888 
> (Parabola/Arch default) on buspirate_spi.

Hello Johannes,

thanks for your report!
I have marked the flash chip as fully tested and will commit that later
together with other small changes.
> I slightly modified board_enable.c in flashrom to add the T400 to the 
> whitelist when flashing on r1901 (taken from libreboot patch):
> {0x8086, 0x2917, 0x17AA, 0x20F5,  0x8086, 0x2930, 0x17AA, 0x20F9,
>
> "^ThinkPad T400", NULL, NULL,      P2, "IBM/Lenovo",  "ThinkPad T400", 
>         0,   OK, p2_whitelist_laptop},

I have added that as well. The EC uses its own flash chip and should
not bother us. Since the board can run coreboot the EC does not
interact with the x86 firmware either so it is fine to white list it.