Successful write report S25FL016A

[Márton Miklós]

Hello all,

I have successfully flashed a Dell D830 notebook (with discrete NVIDIA 
VGA) using flashrom from A14 BIOS revision to A17.
This means two things: the notebook itself is supported, and the 
S25FL016A could be marked as verified for probe, read, erase, write.
For the later one I have created a patch. I have forgotten to run lspci 
-vvvv, but I will do that and create a board enable patch soon.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 22:16:07 +0100
Márton Miklós  wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have successfully flashed a Dell D830 notebook (with discrete NVIDIA 
> VGA) using flashrom from A14 BIOS revision to A17.
> This means two things: the notebook itself is supported, and the 
> S25FL016A could be marked as verified for probe, read, erase, write.
> For the later one I have created a patch. I have forgotten to run lspci 
> -vvvv, but I will do that and create a board enable patch soon.

Hello Márton,

thanks for your report!
I have marked the flash chip as fully tested and will commit that later
together with other small changes.
BTW, your write log does not really show anything useful because it is
not the original one. flashrom skips to erase and write blocks that 
contain the same data as the file to write already (denoted by the :S
in the output).

[Márton Miklós]

Hello Stefan,

You are correct the attached output was performed with the A17 -> A17 
write, so the flashrom skipped that write.
I have missed the creating of the verbose log at the original A14-A17 
update, and did not wanted to spend time with finding the different 
(older) BIOS contents.

Regerds,
Miklos Marton

2015-12-23 23:03 keltezéssel, Stefan Tauner írta:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 22:16:07 +0100
> Márton Miklós  wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have successfully flashed a Dell D830 notebook (with discrete NVIDIA
> > VGA) using flashrom from A14 BIOS revision to A17.
> > This means two things: the notebook itself is supported, and the
> > S25FL016A could be marked as verified for probe, read, erase, write.
> > For the later one I have created a patch. I have forgotten to run lspci
> > -vvvv, but I will do that and create a board enable patch soon.
>
> Hello Márton,
>
> thanks for your report!
> I have marked the flash chip as fully tested and will commit that later
> together with other small changes.
> BTW, your write log does not really show anything useful because it is
> not the original one. flashrom skips to erase and write blocks that
> contain the same data as the file to write already (denoted by the :S
> in the output).