2011/4/15 Razee, Robert G (DS-1) RRazee@drs-ds.com:
Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica
I am currently working with an Intel based controller that is not supported by FLASHROM. The controller was purchased with AMI BIOS which configures the South Bridge BIOS_CNTL register to only allow SMI code to update the BIOS. Is there any work being done to provide BIOS writing via SMI?
The controller (CR11) is manufactured by GE and uses the following chipset:
Intel Celeron Processor
Intel E7520 North Bridge
Intel 6300ESB South Bridge
The 6300ESB chipset is known to be supported: http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_chipsets
SST49LF008A Firmware Hub
I have been able to get FLASHROM to find the firmware hub, but it cannot successfully write the BIOS. The AMI utility is using an SMI handler to perform the BIOS updates.
IMHO BLE should be set to 0 and BIOSWE should be set to 1.
http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/300641.pdf 8.1.12 Offset 4E - 4Fh: BIOS_CNTL (LPC I/F—D31:F0)
Any information regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Can you re-run flashrom like this: "flashrom -V" ?
Robert G. Razee
Senior Software Engineer
DRS Consolidated Controls Inc.
21 South Street
Danbury, CT 06810
Tel: (203) 730-6808
Email: RRazee@DRS-DS.com
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Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica
I have attached log files from the following:
flashrom -V > flashrom.log "FlashRom was extracted from svn on 4/19/2011 and built with no changes." lspci -nnvvxxx > lspci.log superiotool -deV > superiotool.log
biosdecode > biosdecode.log hwinfo --bios > hwinfo-bios.log dmidecode --type bios > dmidecode-bios.log lshw > lshw.log
The controller (CR11) is manufactured by GE and uses the following chipset:
Intel Celeron Processor Intel E7520 North Bridge Intel 6300ESB South Bridge SST49LF008A Firmware Hub
With minor tweaks to flashrom, it was able to see the following:
Found chip "SST SST49LF008A" (1024 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff00000
The FWH ID was found at 0xfffc0000 and 0xfffc0001.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. We are in need of a reflash utility other than the one supplied by AMI .
Thanks,
Robert G. Razee Senior Software Engineer DRS Consolidated Controls Inc. 21 South Street Danbury, CT 06810 Tel: (203) 730-6808 Email: RRazee@DRS-DS.com
-----Original Message----- From: Idwer Vollering [mailto:vidwer@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:51 AM To: Razee, Robert G (DS-1) Cc: flashrom@flashrom.org Subject: Re: [flashrom] Writing BIOS via SMI
2011/4/15 Razee, Robert G (DS-1) RRazee@drs-ds.com:
Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica
I am currently working with an Intel based controller that is not supported by FLASHROM. The controller was purchased with AMI BIOS which configures the South Bridge BIOS_CNTL register to only allow SMI code to update the BIOS. Is there any work being done to provide BIOS writing via SMI?
The controller (CR11) is manufactured by GE and uses the following chipset:
Intel Celeron Processor
Intel E7520 North Bridge
Intel 6300ESB South Bridge
The 6300ESB chipset is known to be supported: http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_chipsets
SST49LF008A Firmware Hub
I have been able to get FLASHROM to find the firmware hub, but it cannot successfully write the BIOS. The AMI utility is using an SMI handler to perform the BIOS updates.
IMHO BLE should be set to 0 and BIOSWE should be set to 1.
http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/300641.pdf 8.1.12 Offset 4E - 4Fh: BIOS_CNTL (LPC I/F—D31:F0)
Any information regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Can you re-run flashrom like this: "flashrom -V" ?
Robert G. Razee
Senior Software Engineer
DRS Consolidated Controls Inc.
21 South Street
Danbury, CT 06810
Tel: (203) 730-6808
Email: RRazee@DRS-DS.com
3.1.1001
flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
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