Asus Crosshair IV Extreme: flashrom -V

[Christophe Poncy]

Hi,

I would love to replace the bios for my mother board but I didn't find 
any coreboot suitable for the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme.  I just wanted 
to let you know that I am available to test any builds in development.

# Products info: AMD 890FX/SB850 Crosshair IV Extreme (ASUS mobo)

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/Crosshair_IV_Extreme/
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/chipsets/8-series-integrated/Pages/am...

# ./flashrom -r -L
flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), built with 
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750/SB850". Enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC, FWH, SPI.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q16" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address 
0xffe00000.
Reading flash... done.

# ./flashrom -V
(results are attached)

Best regards,

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:07:39 +0200
Christophe Poncy  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would love to replace the bios for my mother board but I didn't find 
> any coreboot suitable for the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme.  I just wanted 
> to let you know that I am available to test any builds in development.

hello christophe

you are talking to the wrong people ;)
although flashrom is related to coreboot (spin-off), this ml has
nothing to do with coreboot in general, see coreboot.org for theirs.
that said, usually boards need to get coreboot ported to them. this
wont happen just like that, but someone with the board needs to do it...

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Christophe, dear Stefan,

Am Freitag, den 19.08.2011, 05:24 +0200 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:07:39 +0200 Christophe Poncy wrote:
> > I would love to replace the bios for my mother board but I didn't find 
> > any coreboot suitable for the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme.  I just wanted 
> > to let you know that I am available to test any builds in development.
> you are talking to the wrong people ;)
> although flashrom is related to coreboot (spin-off), this ml has
> nothing to do with coreboot in general, see coreboot.org for theirs.
> that said, usually boards need to get coreboot ported to them. this
> wont happen just like that, but someone with the board needs to do it...

Christophe, Stefan is right. Please contact the coreboot list [1] (with
a descriptive subject line) and provide the necessary information [2].

Stefan, is the output of `flashrom -V` Christophe attached useful to
decide if the board is supported by flashrom [3]?

Thanks,

Paul

[1] http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist
[2] http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
[3] http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:01:54 +0200
Paul Menzel  wrote:
> Stefan, is the output of `flashrom -V` Christophe attached useful to
> decide if the board is supported by flashrom [3]?

well he has reported that reading works, so the worst thing that could
happen is that he needs a board enable to lift a write protection...
the least of his problems if he wants to tackle coreboot imho ;)

[Paul Menzel]

Am Freitag, den 19.08.2011, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:01:54 +0200 Paul Menzel wrote:
> > Stefan, is the output of `flashrom -V` Christophe attached useful to
> > decide if the board is supported by flashrom [3]?
>
> well he has reported that reading works, so the worst thing that could
> happen is that he needs a board enable to lift a write protection...

So the board should be added to the list of supported boards, should not
it?
> the least of his problems if he wants to tackle coreboot imho ;)

True.

Thanks,

Paul

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:07:19 +0200
Paul Menzel  wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 19.08.2011, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:01:54 +0200 Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > Stefan, is the output of `flashrom -V` Christophe attached useful to
> > > decide if the board is supported by flashrom [3]?
> >
> > well he has reported that reading works, so the worst thing that could
> > happen is that he needs a board enable to lift a write protection...
>
> So the board should be added to the list of supported boards, should not
> it?

not until writing is tested. i take care of this, no worries :)

[Christophe Poncy]

On 08/19/2011 11:40 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:07:19 +0200
> Paul Menzel  wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 19.08.2011, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:01:54 +0200 Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > > Stefan, is the output of `flashrom -V` Christophe attached useful to
> > > > decide if the board is supported by flashrom [3]?
> > >
> > > well he has reported that reading works, so the worst thing that could
> > > happen is that he needs a board enable to lift a write protection...
> >
> > So the board should be added to the list of supported boards, should not
> > it?
>
> not until writing is tested. i take care of this, no worries :)

I successfully flashed to BIOS version 0502 (the previous one was 
Crosshair IV Extreme 0243 BIOS). Please, see the ASUS download page for 
details, here are the BIOSes:

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/Crosshair_IV_Extreme/#download

# flashrom -w CrosshairIV-Extreme-ASUS-0502.ROM
flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), built with 
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750/SB850". Enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC, FWH, SPI.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q16" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address 
0xffe00000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

I tried writing again after erasing, this just works :)
You can add the board to the list I think ;)

Thanks Stefan and Paul for your advice, I will contact the coreboot list 
later.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:08:58 +0200
Christophe Poncy  wrote:
> I successfully flashed to BIOS version 0502 (the previous one was 
> Crosshair IV Extreme 0243 BIOS). Please, see the ASUS download page for 
> details, here are the BIOSes:
>
> http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/Crosshair_IV_Extreme/#download
>
> # flashrom -w CrosshairIV-Extreme-ASUS-0502.ROM
> flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), built with 
> libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750/SB850". Enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC, FWH, SPI.
> Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q16" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address 
> 0xffe00000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
>
> I tried writing again after erasing, this just works :)
> You can add the board to the list I think ;)

done (locally), thanks!