Successfully re-flashed Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H rev.3

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello All!

Just for your reference - I just upgraded BIOS on this board with
flashrom and rebooted the system. Everything works fine, and dmidecode
reflects BIOS version changing from FC to FD.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?Produ...

[Peter Lemenkov]

Oops! Forgot to attach logs:

[root@Nostromo tmp]# flashrom -w MA74S2H3.FD
flashrom v0.9.1-r710
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Macronix MX25L8005" (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff00000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... done.
Programming flash................................ done.
COMPLETE.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
[root@Nostromo tmp]#

[Peter Lemenkov]

Folks, seems, that there is false match in board enabling with latest
flashrom (r893):

2010/2/6 Peter Lemenkov :
> Oops! Forgot to attach logs:
>
> [root@Nostromo tmp]# flashrom -w MA74S2H3.FD
> flashrom v0.9.1-r710
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "Macronix MX25L8005" (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff00000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... done.
> Programming flash................................ done.
> COMPLETE.
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
> [root@Nostromo tmp]#

[root@Nostromo ~]# flashrom
flashrom v0.9.1-r893
No coreboot table found.
Found ITE SuperI/O, id 8718
Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
Disabling flash write protection for board "GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H"... FAILED!
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Macronix MX25L8005" (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff00000.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: ERASE
Please email a report to [e-mail] if any of the above operations
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom
output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -rV,
-wV, -EV), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
Thanks for your help!
===
No operations were specified.
[root@Nostromo ~]#

I'm afraid, that we need to add DMI match here for GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H

[Peter Lemenkov]

Update!

2010/2/11 Peter Lemenkov :
> Folks, seems, that there is false match in board enabling with latest
> flashrom (r893):
>
> [root@Nostromo ~]# flashrom
> flashrom v0.9.1-r893
> No coreboot table found.
> Found ITE SuperI/O, id 8718
> Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
> Disabling flash write protection for board "GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H"... FAILED!
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "Macronix MX25L8005" (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff00000.
> ===
> This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: ERASE
> Please email a report to [e-mail] if any of the above operations
> work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom
> output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -rV,
> -wV, -EV), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
> Thanks for your help!
> ===
> No operations were specified.
> [root@Nostromo ~]#
>
> I'm afraid, that we need to add DMI match here for GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H

This issue exists also in v0.9.1-r710 - I just didn't mention it.
Anyway, I'm sure that board enable for GA-MA78GM-S2H should also use
DMI matching.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 11.02.2010 15:12, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> 2010/2/11 Peter Lemenkov :
> > Folks, seems, that there is false match in board enabling with latest
> > flashrom (r893):
> >
> > [root@Nostromo ~]# flashrom
> > flashrom v0.9.1-r893
> > No coreboot table found.
> > Found ITE SuperI/O, id 8718
> > Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
> > This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
> > Disabling flash write protection for board "GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H"... FAILED!
> > [root@Nostromo ~]#
> >
> > I'm afraid, that we need to add DMI match here for GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H
>
> This issue exists also in v0.9.1-r710 - I just didn't mention it.
> Anyway, I'm sure that board enable for GA-MA78GM-S2H should also use
> DMI matching.

Actually, with the SuperIO code currently in the tree, we can handle the
SPI enable in a generic way and kill those board matches completely.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel