Bus Pirate v4

Hi everybody, can it be that the new buspirate version 4 is not supported by flashrom? I get the error "programmer initialization failed". I just used the command "flashrom -p buspirate_spi" to test it but it fails. I'm using MS Windows dos box.

Best regards Jan Hagedorn

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:34:48 +0200
"[e-mail]"  wrote:
> Hi everybody, can it be that the new buspirate version 4 is not supported by flashrom? I get the error "programmer initialization failed". I just used the command "flashrom -p buspirate_spi" to test it but it fails. I'm using MS Windows dos box.

Hello Jan,

short answer: no. Could you get it to work in the meantime?

[Jan Hagedorn]

Hi and thanks fort he reply. Yes it took a little time but with the command "flashrom -p busbirate_spi:dev=com3 -r filename.rom" I managed it working nicely. I only got some trouble regarding in-circuit-programming. Do you have a hint for me regarding that?

Best regards Jan

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Stefan Tauner [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014 09:00
An: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Bus Pirate v4

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:34:48 +0200
"[e-mail]"  wrote:
> Hi everybody, can it be that the new buspirate version 4 is not supported by flashrom? I get the error "programmer initialization failed". I just used the command "flashrom -p buspirate_spi" to test it but it fails. I'm using MS Windows dos box.

Hello Jan,

short answer: no. Could you get it to work in the meantime?

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 1 May 2014 10:41:55 +0200
"Jan Hagedorn"  wrote:
> Hi and thanks fort he reply. Yes it took a little time but with the command "flashrom -p busbirate_spi:dev=com3 -r filename.rom" I managed it working nicely. I only got some trouble regarding in-circuit-programming. Do you have a hint for me regarding that?

We have summed up some hints in our wiki: http://flashrom.org/ISP
If that does not help... what issues do you have?

[Jan Hagedorn]

The problem ist hat I try to flash a MX25L5121E SPI ROM. It's soldered onto my MoBo and is used by the ASMedia 1042 USB 3.0 chip. I did a badflash through DOS and try to recover it now. When I connect the buspirate and start operation flashrom hangs. Maybe I should try it with power on and a disconnected VCC line?

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Stefan Tauner [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014 11:14
An: Jan Hagedorn
Cc: [e-mail]
Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Bus Pirate v4

On Thu, 1 May 2014 10:41:55 +0200
"Jan Hagedorn"  wrote:
> Hi and thanks fort he reply. Yes it took a little time but with the command "flashrom -p busbirate_spi:dev=com3 -r filename.rom" I managed it working nicely. I only got some trouble regarding in-circuit-programming. Do you have a hint for me regarding that?

We have summed up some hints in our wiki: http://flashrom.org/ISP If that does not help... what issues do you have?

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 1 May 2014 11:27:36 +0200
"Jan Hagedorn"  wrote:
> The problem ist hat I try to flash a MX25L5121E SPI ROM. It's soldered onto my MoBo and is used by the ASMedia 1042 USB 3.0 chip. I did a badflash through DOS and try to recover it now. When I connect the buspirate and start operation flashrom hangs. Maybe I should try it with power on and a disconnected VCC line?

Maybe, can you please also post a flashrom log with at least -V (better
-VVV in case of hangs). And if you can... updating the bus pirate
firmware is usually always a good idea.

[Jan Hagedorn]

Ok I will do that. Will send the log by mail to you? The BP FW is up to date (6.3 I think). But the Windows snapshot of flashrom seems to be a bit old. Is there maybe a newer one available? I tried to build one but I'm totally lost as I am an absolute newbie to Linux...

Kind regards Jan

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Stefan Tauner [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014 12:08
An: Jan Hagedorn
Cc: [e-mail]
Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Bus Pirate v4

On Thu, 1 May 2014 11:27:36 +0200
"Jan Hagedorn"  wrote:
> The problem ist hat I try to flash a MX25L5121E SPI ROM. It's soldered onto my MoBo and is used by the ASMedia 1042 USB 3.0 chip. I did a badflash through DOS and try to recover it now. When I connect the buspirate and start operation flashrom hangs. Maybe I should try it with power on and a disconnected VCC line?

Maybe, can you please also post a flashrom log with at least -V (better -VVV in case of hangs). And if you can... updating the bus pirate firmware is usually always a good idea.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 1 May 2014 12:12:50 +0200
"Jan Hagedorn"  wrote:
> Ok I will do that. Will send the log by mail to you? The BP FW is up to date (6.3 I think). But the Windows snapshot of flashrom seems to be a bit old. Is there maybe a newer one available? I tried to build one but I'm totally lost as I am an absolute newbie to Linux...

Our buildbot was killed by a RAID failure last year and we were too
lazy (I mean busy) too resurrect it yet, that's why there are no
current builds floating around. You did not mention which version you
are using yet... a log would also have helped with that ;)
I think I can cross-compile windows binaries for you if need be, but I
presume the latest available are good enough.

[Idwer Vollering]

2014-05-01 13:36 GMT+02:00 Stefan Tauner :
> On Thu, 1 May 2014 12:12:50 +0200
> "Jan Hagedorn"  wrote:
> > Ok I will do that. Will send the log by mail to you? The BP FW is up to date (6.3 I think). But the Windows snapshot of flashrom seems to be a bit old. Is there maybe a newer one available? I tried to build one but I'm totally lost as I am an absolute newbie to Linux...

Try http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/mingw/mingw32-w64-flashrom-r1781.exe
and
if you need libusb DLLs: they are found in
http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/mingw/flashrom-0.9.6.1-r1705-mingw.7z
> Our buildbot was killed by a RAID failure last year and we were too
> lazy (I mean busy) too resurrect it yet, that's why there are no
> current builds floating around. You did not mention which version you
> are using yet... a log would also have helped with that ;)
> I think I can cross-compile windows binaries for you if need be, but I
> presume the latest available are good enough.
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