flashrom log, Intel C236

[Mario Piras]

I was not able to use flashrom with Intel C236 motherboard Fujitsu D3417-B1,
as the following information was displayed, I'm also attaching log.
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Found chipset "Intel C236" with PCI ID 8086:a149.
This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version
of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it,
then please email a report to [e-mail] including a verbose (-V) log.
Thank you!
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I'd purchase another C236 or C232 motherboard, would welcome suggestion which one to try.

Best regards

[Angel Pons]

Hi Mario,

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:41 AM Mario Piras via flashrom
 wrote:
> I was not able to use flashrom with Intel C236 motherboard Fujitsu D3417-B1,
> as the following information was displayed, I'm also attaching log.
>
> Found chipset "Intel C236" with PCI ID 8086:a149.
> This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version
> of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it,
> then please email a report to [e-mail] including a verbose (-V) log.
> Thank you!

Part of your log explains why it is not working:

Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is most likely
due to an active ME. Please see https://flashrom.org/ME for details.
Writes have been disabled for safety reasons. You can enforce write
support with the ich_spi_force programmer option, but you will most likely
harm your hardware! If you force flashrom you will get no support if
something breaks. On a few mainboards it is possible to enable write
access by setting a jumper (see its documentation or the board itself).

In short, your firmware settings block read access to some parts of
the flash chip. For some reason, the flashrom version does not appear
in the log, so I have no idea if it's a recent version. I would
suggest building from master and trying again. The message will be
similar, but contains more useful information.

Newer flashrom versions support the `--ifd` command line switch, which
uses the Intel Flash Descriptor (think of it as a "partition table"
for the firmware on Intel platforms) as a layout. Together with the
`-i bios` switch, flashrom will only read the BIOS region, which
should just work.
> I'd purchase another C236 or C232 motherboard, would welcome suggestion which one to try.
>
> Best regards
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Best regards,

Angel Pons