Test results for flashrom on Winfast MCP61SM2MA-ERS2H

[Paul Brookman]

These are from attempts to flash a Winbond chip on a MCP61 chipset board (failed). The chip was previously hot-flashed with the latest bios for the Winfast MCP61 board using flashrom successfully on another board (Foxconn RC4107MA). Transferred to the Winfast board, the rom chip enabled the board to be booted successfully, but could not then be erased.

Many thanks,
Paul Brookman

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Paul,

thanks for your report.

On 05.12.2010 14:52, Paul Brookman wrote:
> These are from attempts to flash a Winbond chip on a MCP61 chipset board (failed). The chip was previously hot-flashed with the latest bios for the Winfast MCP61 board using flashrom successfully on another board (Foxconn RC4107MA). Transferred to the Winfast board, the rom chip enabled the board to be booted successfully, but could not then be erased.
>
> flashrom v0.9.2-r1028 on Linux 2.6.35-23-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.4, little endian

Could you upgrade to the lastest flashrom version, preferably current
svn? That would make diagnosis of your problem a lot easier.
Instructions are at http://www.flashrom.org/Downloads
> [...]
> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "WinFast"
> DMI string baseboard-product-name: "MCP61M2MA"
> DMI string baseboard-version: "FAB1.0"
> DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
> Found ITE Super I/O, id 8716
> Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP61", enabling flash write... chipset PCI ID is 10de:03e0
> [...]
> Guessed flash bus type is LPC
> [...]
> Probing for Winbond W39V040B, 512 KB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xda, id2 0x54
> Found chip "Winbond W39V040B" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff80000.
> [...]
> Erasing flash chip...
> Looking at blockwise erase function 0... trying... 0x000000-0x00ffff, 
> Looking at blockwise erase function 1... trying... 0x000000-0x07ffff, 
> Looking at blockwise erase function 2... not defined. Looking for another erase function.
> Looking at blockwise erase function 3... not defined. Looking for another erase function.
> Looking at blockwise erase function 4... not defined. Looking for another erase function.

Looks like stderr was not captured.
If you're trying erase again with a newer flashrom version, please use
flashrom -V -E >output.txt 2>&1
That will capture the errors as well.
> From what I saw in your log, we probably have to reverse engineer the

mainboard enable function. Doable, but most of our reverse engineering
specialists are very busy right now. If you send the output of
flashrom -V
superiotool -deV
lspci -nnvvvxxx
as response to this mail, and if you upload your current flash chip
contents to http://paste.flashrom.org/ and post the link here, we will
put your mainboard on our TODO list. If you're lucky, you'll see a
response in the next few days.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Paul Brookman]

Many thanks for your reply.
I have updated to the latest flashrom version and tried again to erase the 
Winbond flash chip. Log attached.

There is no urgency about finding a fix for the MCP61 board - it looks as 
though your colleagues are working on that anyway.

I'm not sure what I should upload to the paste link. By "flash chip 
contents", do you mean the bios file or the log of flashrom results?

Thanks for your help.

Paul Brookman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" 
To: "Paul Brookman" 
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [flashrom] Test results for flashrom on Winfast 
MCP61SM2MA-ERS2H
> Hi Paul,
>
> thanks for your report.
>
> On 05.12.2010 14:52, Paul Brookman wrote:
> > These are from attempts to flash a Winbond chip on a MCP61 chipset board 
> > (failed). The chip was previously hot-flashed with the latest bios for 
> > the Winfast MCP61 board using flashrom successfully on another board 
> > (Foxconn RC4107MA). Transferred to the Winfast board, the rom chip 
> > enabled the board to be booted successfully, but could not then be 
> > erased.
> >
> > flashrom v0.9.2-r1028 on Linux 2.6.35-23-generic (i686), built with 
> > libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.4, little endian
>
> Could you upgrade to the lastest flashrom version, preferably current
> svn? That would make diagnosis of your problem a lot easier.
> Instructions are at http://www.flashrom.org/Downloads
> > [...]
> > DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "WinFast"
> > DMI string baseboard-product-name: "MCP61M2MA"
> > DMI string baseboard-version: "FAB1.0"
> > DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
> > Found ITE Super I/O, id 8716
> > Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP61", enabling flash write... chipset PCI ID is 
> > 10de:03e0
> > [...]
> > Guessed flash bus type is LPC
> > [...]
> > Probing for Winbond W39V040B, 512 KB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xda, id2 
> > 0x54
> > Found chip "Winbond W39V040B" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address 
> > 0xfff80000.
> > [...]
> > Erasing flash chip...
> > Looking at blockwise erase function 0... trying... 0x000000-0x00ffff,
> > Looking at blockwise erase function 1... trying... 0x000000-0x07ffff,
> > Looking at blockwise erase function 2... not defined. Looking for another 
> > erase function.
> > Looking at blockwise erase function 3... not defined. Looking for another 
> > erase function.
> > Looking at blockwise erase function 4... not defined. Looking for another 
> > erase function.
>
> Looks like stderr was not captured.
> If you're trying erase again with a newer flashrom version, please use
> flashrom -V -E >output.txt 2>&1
> That will capture the errors as well.
>
> From what I saw in your log, we probably have to reverse engineer the
> mainboard enable function. Doable, but most of our reverse engineering
> specialists are very busy right now. If you send the output of
> flashrom -V
> superiotool -deV
> lspci -nnvvvxxx
> as response to this mail, and if you upload your current flash chip
> contents to http://paste.flashrom.org/ and post the link here, we will
> put your mainboard on our TODO list. If you're lucky, you'll see a
> response in the next few days.
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel

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