Hi Caleb, It looks like flashrom detected your hardware successfully, however it found that the management engine region is "locked" (cannot read or write in that region): BMWAG 0x00, BMRAG 0x00, BRWA 0x4a, BRRA 0x4b 0x54: 0x00000000 FREG0: Warning: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-only. 0x58: 0x0fff0700 FREG1: BIOS region (0x00700000-0x00ffffff) is read-write. 0x5C: 0x06ff0003 FREG2: Warning: Management Engine region (0x00003000-0x006fffff) is locked. 0x60: 0x00020001 FREG3: Gigabit Ethernet region (0x00001000-0x00002fff) is read-write. Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is most likely due to an active ME. Please see http://flashrom.org/ME for details. Writes have been disabled for safety reasons. You can enforce write support with the ich_spi_force programmer option, but you will most likely harm your hardware! If you force flashrom you will get no support if something breaks. On a few mainboards it is possible to enable write access by setting a jumper (see its documentation or the board itself).
(For more information: http://flashrom.org/ME)
Consequently, updating your firmware might be tricky. You should probably use whatever tool the vendor supports, unless you have a specific reason for using flashrom also have an external programmer handy in case something goes wrong and you need to recover.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Caleb Bartholomew < caleb.bartholomew@xi3.com> wrote:
Can’t update BIOS with flashrom. BIOS chip is W25Q64FV - Source: Visual confirmation
Thanks,
Caleb Bartholomew Manager, Software Engineering caleb.bartholomew@xi3.com
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