Shuttle Inc FN78S: flashrom -V

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[dvrhax]

I was able to succesfully write the attached bios file.  It worked perfect.  Thanks for such a great little program

flashrom --programmer internal -Vw SN78S10Y.BIN

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A non-text attachment has been stripped: SN78S10Y.BIN
It is available for download at http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id%1336

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[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi drvhax,

thanks for your report.

Am 13.08.2012 00:48 schrieb dvrhax:
> I was able to succesfully write the attached bios file.  It worked perfect.  Thanks for such a great little program
>
> flashrom --programmer internal -Vw SN78S10Y.BIN
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: dvrhax 
> To: "[e-mail]"  
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:14 PM
> Subject: Shuttle Inc FN78S: flashrom -V
> A non-text attachment has been stripped: SN78S10Y.BIN
> It is available for download at http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id%1336

Sorry for the broken link, that should have been

http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1336

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
dvrhax  wrote:
> I was able to succesfully write the attached bios file.  It worked perfect.  Thanks for such a great little program
>
> flashrom --programmer internal -Vw SN78S10Y.BIN

We had some nuisances due to a server upgrade, hence my out of sync
answer to your first mail, sorry. Great that it has worked for you and
thanks for telling us. I'll add the board to our list and mark the chip
as fully tested. I would still like to verify if it is really the
F25L008A chip and not another chip that coincidently has the same ID (such cases
exist). So if you could take a look and verify that visually it would
be much appreciated.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:14:23 -0700 (PDT)
dvrhax  wrote:
> flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1569 on Linux 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>
> flashrom was built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian
> Command line (3 args): flashrom --programmer internal -V
> Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 831M loops per second, 10 myus = 11 us, 100 myus = 100 us, 1000 myus = 1000 us, 10000 myus = 9979 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK.
> Initializing internal programmer
> No coreboot table found.
> DMI string system-manufacturer: "Shuttle Inc"
> DMI string system-product-name: "SN78S"
> DMI string system-version: "V10"
> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Shuttle Inc"
> DMI string baseboard-product-name: "FN78S"
> DMI string baseboard-version: "V10"
> DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
> […]
> Found EMST flash chip "F25L008A" (1024 kB, SPI).
> ===
> This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE

Hello dvrhax,

thanks for your report! Can you confirm that there is really an EMST
F25L008A chip on your board? If you look at this picture
http://www.3dnews.ru/_imgdata/img/2009/02/20/114060.jpg then the flash
chip is located right and above the PCIe slot. In the picture it is a
socketed DIP8 package, but this might not be the case on retail boards.
Other possible variants can be found at http://flashrom.org/Technology

Can you please also try to read the existing firmware with flashrom's
-r <filename> option? This is safe to test. You can of course also try
to erase and write, but this can of course have negative consequences
even if improbable if you dont do something stupid.
Please include verbose logs again for any commands you try (but not
the binary images because they are copyrighted).
Tip: flashrom can create log files itself with the -o <logfile> option.