Bugreport: ASUS PRIME X370-A "internal" programmer, Flash not detected

[Markus Rudolf]

Hi,

I have an ASUS PRIME X370-A and wanted to make a raw flash image of the BIOS chip, to no avail:

root@ubuntu:~# flashrom -p internal
flashrom unknown on Linux 6.8.0-41-generic (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
Found chipset "AMD FP4".
Enabling flash write... Disabling read write protection of flash
addresses from 0xfc000000 to 0xfc05ffff failed.
Disabling read write protection of flash addresses from 0xfd000000 to
0xfd05ffff failed.
Disabling read write protection of flash addresses from 0xfe000000 to
0xfe05ffff failed.
Disabling read write protection of flash addresses from 0xff000000 to
0xff05ffff failed.
FCH device found but SMBus revision 0x61 does not match known values.
Please report this to [e-mail] and include this log and
the output of lspci -nnvx, thanks!.
Could not determine chipset generation.PROBLEMS, continuing anyway
No EEPROM/flash device found.
Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found
automatically.

See attached lspci dump!

Seems to be a bug, hope it can be fixed, or is there something I overlooked?

Markus

[Peter Marheine]

That's probably because you have hardware that's known not to be supported
currently: https://flashrom.org/release_notes/v_1_5.html#known-issues

On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM Markus Rudolf via flashrom <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an ASUS PRIME X370-A and wanted to make a raw flash image of the
> BIOS chip, to no avail:
>
> root@ubuntu:~# flashrom -p internal
> flashrom unknown on Linux 6.8.0-41-generic (x86_64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
>
> Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
> Found chipset "AMD FP4".
> Enabling flash write... Disabling read write protection of flash
> addresses from 0xfc000000 to 0xfc05ffff failed.
> Disabling read write protection of flash addresses from 0xfd000000 to
> 0xfd05ffff failed.
> Disabling read write protection of flash addresses from 0xfe000000 to
> 0xfe05ffff failed.
> Disabling read write protection of flash addresses from 0xff000000 to
> 0xff05ffff failed.
> FCH device found but SMBus revision 0x61 does not match known values.
> Please report this to [e-mail] and include this log and
> the output of lspci -nnvx, thanks!.
> Could not determine chipset generation.PROBLEMS, continuing anyway
> No EEPROM/flash device found.
> Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found
> automatically.
>
> See attached lspci dump!
>
> Seems to be a bug, hope it can be fixed, or is there something I
> overlooked?
>
> Markus_______________________________________________
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