Flash Rom fails

[Dave Hugh]

Trying to flash my ROM to get a needed Bios update on an APU2B4 from
PCENGINES. Booting into a USB tiny core image to perform the flash, get
an error message which advises me to email this address.  Can you help?
 Thanks in advance

**** Log message

][root@box:/mnt/sdb]$ flashrom -w apu2_160120.rom -p internal

flashrom v0.9.7-r1711-APU on Linux 3.8.13-tinycore (i686)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffae000.
Found chipset "AMD FCH". Enabling flash write... FCH device found but
SMBus revision 0x42 does not match known values.
Please report this to [e-mail] and include this log and
the output of lspci -nnvx, thanks!.
OK.
FIFO pointer corruption! Pointer is 0, wanted 3
Something else is accessing the flash chip and causes random corruption.
Please stop all applications and drivers and IPMI which access the flash
chip.
No EEPROM/flash device found.
Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically.

**** Command output

[][root@box:/mnt/sdb]$ lspci -nnvx
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1566]
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1566]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
00: 22 10 66 15 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 10 66 15
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:156b]
        Flags: fast devsel
00: 22 10 6b 15 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:02.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device
[1022:1439] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
        Memory behind bridge: fe500000-fe5fffff
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
Device [1022:1234]
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=010 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00: 22 10 39 14 07 04 10 00 00 00 04 06 10 00 81 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 11 11 00 00
20: 50 fe 50 fe f1 ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 03 00

00:02.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device
[1022:1439] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
        Memory behind bridge: fe600000-fe6fffff
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
Device [1022:1234]
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=010 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00: 22 10 39 14 07 04 10 00 00 00 04 06 10 00 81 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 02 00 21 21 00 00
20: 60 fe 60 fe f1 ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 03 00

00:02.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device
[1022:1439] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
        Memory behind bridge: fe700000-fe7fffff
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
Device [1022:1234]
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=010 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00: 22 10 39 14 07 04 10 00 00 00 04 06 10 00 81 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 03 00 31 31 00 00
20: 70 fe 70 fe f1 ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 03 00

00:02.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device
[1022:1439] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: fe800000-fe8fffff
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
Device [1022:1234]
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=010 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00: 22 10 39 14 06 04 10 00 00 00 04 06 10 00 81 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 04 00 f1 01 00 00
20: 80 fe 80 fe f1 ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 03 00

00:08.0 Encryption controller [1080]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
Device [1022:1537]
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1537]
        Flags: fast devsel
        Memory at feb00000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Memory at fe900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Memory at feb24000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at fea00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Memory at feb20000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [50] MSI-X: Enable- Count=2 Masked-
        Capabilities: [5c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
00: 22 10 37 15 02 00 10 00 00 00 80 10 00 00 00 00
10: 0c 00 b0 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 90 fe 00 40 b2 fe
20: 00 00 a0 fe 00 00 b2 fe 00 00 00 00 22 10 37 15
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device
[1022:7814] (rev 11) (prog-if 30)
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1410]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at feb22000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] #18
        Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00: 22 10 14 78 06 04 10 00 11 30 03 0c 10 00 00 00
10: 04 20 b2 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 10 10 14
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SATA
Controller [IDE mode] [1022:7800] (rev 40) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SATA Controller
[IDE mode] [1022:7800]
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 4010 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 4020 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 4018 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 4024 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 4000 [size=16]
        Memory at feb25000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [70] SATA HBA v1.0
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
00: 22 10 00 78 07 00 30 02 40 01 06 01 10 40 00 00
10: 11 40 00 00 21 40 00 00 19 40 00 00 25 40 00 00
20: 01 40 00 00 00 50 b2 fe 00 00 00 00 22 10 00 78
30: 00 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB
EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 39) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI
Controller [1022:7808]
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
        Memory at feb25400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [e4] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00e0
        Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00: 22 10 08 78 16 00 b0 02 39 20 03 0c 10 40 00 00
10: 00 54 b2 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 10 08 78
30: 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SMBus
Controller [1022:780b] (rev 42)
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SMBus Controller
[1022:780b]
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
00: 22 10 0b 78 03 04 20 02 42 00 05 0c 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 10 0b 78
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson LPC
Bridge [1022:780e] (rev 11)
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson LPC Bridge
[1022:780e]
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
00: 22 10 0e 78 0f 00 20 02 11 00 01 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 10 0e 78
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:14.7 SD Host controller [0805]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device
[1022:7813] (rev 01) (prog-if 01)
        Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:7806]
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 71, IRQ 16
        Memory at feb25500 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
00: 22 10 13 78 06 00 20 02 01 01 05 08 10 47 80 00
10: 04 55 b2 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 10 06 78
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1580]
        Flags: fast devsel
00: 22 10 80 15 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1581]
        Flags: fast devsel
00: 22 10 81 15 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1582]
        Flags: fast devsel
00: 22 10 82 15 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1583]
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [f0] Secure device <?>
00: 22 10 83 15 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1584]
        Flags: fast devsel
00: 22 10 84 15 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1585]
        Flags: fast devsel
00: 22 10 85 15 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 80 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:157b]
(rev 03)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0000]
        Flags: fast devsel
        Memory at fe500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at 1000 [size=32]
        Memory at fe520000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable- Count=5 Masked-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-0d-b9-ff-ff-40-80-68
        Capabilities: [1a0] #17
00: 86 80 7b 15 03 00 10 00 03 00 00 02 10 00 00 00
10: 00 00 50 fe 00 00 00 00 01 10 00 00 00 00 52 fe
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 80 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:157b]
(rev 03)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0000]
        Flags: fast devsel
        Memory at fe600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=32]
        Memory at fe620000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable- Count=5 Masked-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-0d-b9-ff-ff-40-80-69
        Capabilities: [1a0] #17
00: 86 80 7b 15 03 00 10 00 03 00 00 02 10 00 00 00
10: 00 00 60 fe 00 00 00 00 01 20 00 00 00 00 62 fe
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 80 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:157b]
(rev 03)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0000]
        Flags: fast devsel
        Memory at fe700000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=32]
        Memory at fe720000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable- Count=5 Masked-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-0d-b9-ff-ff-40-80-6a
        Capabilities: [1a0] #17
00: 86 80 7b 15 03 00 10 00 03 00 00 02 10 00 00 00
10: 00 00 70 fe 00 00 00 00 01 30 00 00 00 00 72 fe
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 80 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X
Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002a] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:3099]
        Flags: fast devsel
        Memory at fe800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
00: 8c 16 2a 00 02 00 10 00 01 00 80 02 10 00 00 00
10: 04 00 80 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 8c 16 99 30
30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:57:21 -0500
Dave Hugh  wrote:
> Trying to flash my ROM to get a needed Bios update on an APU2B4 from
> PCENGINES. Booting into a USB tiny core image to perform the flash, get
> an error message which advises me to email this address.  Can you help?
>  Thanks in advance

Please update to 0.9.8 or the recent source version. Your hardware is
not supported by 0.9.7 but should work fine with 0.9.8 IIRC.