A8M2N-LA fail

[Márton Miklós]

Hello all,

I have just tried to flash my BIOS using the flashrom, and I have ran 
into the following situation:

lucifer@lucifer-desktop:~/Letöltések/flashrom-0.9.4$ sudo ./flashrom -w 
/tmp/sp35111/3.10
flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (i686), built with 
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51".
This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version
of flashrom please email a report to [e-mail] including a
verbose (-V) log. Thank you!
Enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Found PMC flash chip "Pm49FL004" (512 kB, LPC, FWH) at physical address 
0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! 
Expected=0xff, Read=0x23, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 
0xfec
ERASE FAILED!
Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! 
Expected=0xff, Read=0x23, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 
0xfef9
ERASE FAILED!
Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! 
Expected=0xff, Read=0x23, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 
0x6494b
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed.
Good. It seems nothing was changed.
Writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything.
This means we have to add special support for your board, programmer or 
flash chip.
Please report this on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
mail [e-mail]!
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You may now reboot or simply leave the machine running.

Flashrom info:
lucifer@lucifer-desktop:~/Letöltések/flashrom-0.9.4$ sudo ./flashrom
flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (i686), built with 
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51".
This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version
of flashrom please email a report to [e-mail] including a
verbose (-V) log. Thank you!
Enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Found PMC flash chip "Pm49FL004" (512 kB, LPC, FWH) at physical address 
0xfff80000.
No operations were specified.

I have tried the latest revision (1402) but it did not works too.
Let me know if I should provide any additional information.

Regards,
Miklós Márton

[Stefan Tauner]

hello márton,

please send us the the output of 'flashrom -V', 'lspci -nnvvvxxx',
'superiotool -deV' (run all commands as root).

we need to add a board enable for your board
(http://flashrom.org/Board_Enable). this can take a while.

info for others:

specs (mentioning a asus a8000 superio):
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=de&dlc=de&cc=de&d...

bios update:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software9/COL21400/pv-56162-1/sp35111.exe

[Joshua Roys]

On 08/04/2011 07:45 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> hello márton,
>
> please send us the the output of 'flashrom -V', 'lspci -nnvvvxxx',
> 'superiotool -deV' (run all commands as root).
>
> we need to add a board enable for your board
> (http://flashrom.org/Board_Enable). this can take a while.
>
> info for others:
>
> specs (mentioning a asus a8000 superio):
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=de&dlc=de&cc=de&d...
>
> bios update:
> ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software9/COL21400/pv-56162-1/sp35111.exe

Hello,

The board enable is to raise the nvidia mcp gpio 0.  Also, this patch is 
(probably) needed:
http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/2125/

Thanks,

Josh

[Stefan Tauner]

hi again

can you please try the attached patch to write to your board (please do
a backup with ./flashrom -r backup.bin first)?
if it does not work please also apply
http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/2125/raw/
and try again.

if you have any questions regarding the patching (or building) process
please ask. you can also reach us on freenode's IRC in #flashrom.

PS: i have attached the log files márton has sent me for further
reference too.

[Márton Miklós]

Hello,

I did not found how should I apply the pacth to a freshly checkouted svn 
trunk,
so I have applied it manually in gedit, and the BIOS writing done 
successfully.
Thank you very much for the support and help!
You have done a great job with the flashrom!

Regards,
Miklós

2011-08-05 15:05 keltezéssel, Stefan Tauner írta:
> hi again
>
> can you please try the attached patch to write to your board (please do
> a backup with ./flashrom -r backup.bin first)?
> if it does not work please also apply
> http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/2125/raw/
> and try again.
>
> if you have any questions regarding the patching (or building) process
> please ask. you can also reach us on freenode's IRC in #flashrom.
>
> PS: i have attached the log files márton has sent me for further
> reference too.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:00:22 +0200
Márton Miklós  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did not found how should I apply the pacth to a freshly checkouted svn 
> trunk,
> so I have applied it manually in gedit, and the BIOS writing done 
> successfully.
> Thank you very much for the support and help!
> You have done a great job with the flashrom!

Hi Miklós

the usual way to apply patches is with the "patch" program:
cd srcdir
patch < patchfile.patch
(the most often used parameter for patch is -p, see man page if you
ever need it again please)

thanks for testing, i have committed the board enable in r1408.