Mother MSI H97 PC Mate

[Guillermo Reisch]

Mother home page
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H97-PC-Mate

SO:
 Debian SID (x86_64)

FlashROM version:
guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ dpkg -l flashrom 
Deseado=desconocido(U)/Instalar/eliminaR/Purgar/retener(H)
| Estado=No/Inst/ficheros-Conf/desempaqUetado/medio-conF/medio-inst(H)/espera-
disparo(W)/pendienTe-disparo
|/ Err?=(ninguno)/requiere-Reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
||/ Nombre         Versión      Arquitectura Descripción
+++-==============-============-============-
=============================================================
ii  flashrom       1.3.0-2      amd64        Identify, read, write, erase, and 
verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips

LOG:

guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ sudo flashrom -p internal -r backup.bin -V
flashrom unknown on Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (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).
flashrom was built with GCC 12.2.0, little endian
Command line (5 args): flashrom -p internal -r backup.bin -V
Initializing internal programmer
/sys/class/mtd/mtd0 does not exist
No coreboot table found.
Using Internal DMI decoder.
DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
DMI string system-manufacturer: "MSI"
DMI string system-product-name: "MS-7850"
DMI string system-version: "1.0"
DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "MSI"
DMI string baseboard-product-name: "H97 PC Mate(MS-7850)"
DMI string baseboard-version: "1.0"
Found chipset "Intel H97" with PCI ID 8086:8cc6.
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!
Enabling flash write... Root Complex Register Block address = 0xfed1c000
Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000fed1c000
/dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted
FAILED!
FATAL ERROR!
Error: Programmer initialization failed.

Mother MSI H97 PC Mate [WORKING]

[Guillermo Reisch]

You can mark the "Intel H97" Chipset as working ; "modprobe -r lpc_ich" do the 
trick. I write AMIBIOS v5.8, tested ; and going back to AMIBIOS v5.9. ALL OK.

guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59/7850v58$ sudo flashrom -p internal -w E7850IMS.
580 
flashrom unknown on Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (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 "Intel H97".
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!
Enabling flash write... SPI Configuration is locked down.
FREG0: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-write.
FREG1: BIOS region (0x00980000-0x00ffffff) is read-write.
FREG2: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x0097ffff) is read-write.
Enabling hardware sequencing because some important opcode is locked.
OK.
Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (16384 kB, Programmer-
specific) on internal.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

Greeteng
Guillermo Reisch

El martes, 28 de febrero de 2023 16:06:27 -03 Guillermo Reisch escribió:
> Mother home page
> https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H97-PC-Mate
>
> SO:
>  Debian SID (x86_64)
>
> FlashROM version:
> guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ dpkg -l flashrom
> Deseado=desconocido(U)/Instalar/eliminaR/Purgar/retener(H)
>
> | Estado=No/Inst/ficheros-Conf/desempaqUetado/medio-conF/medio-inst(H)/esper
> | a-
> disparo(W)/pendienTe-disparo
>
> |/ Err?=(ninguno)/requiere-Reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
> |
> ||/ Nombre         Versión      Arquitectura Descripción
> +++-==============-============-============-
>
> ii  flashrom       1.3.0-2      amd64        Identify, read, write, erase,
> and verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips
>
> LOG:
>
> guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ sudo flashrom -p internal -r backup.bin -V
> flashrom unknown on Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (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).
> flashrom was built with GCC 12.2.0, little endian
> Command line (5 args): flashrom -p internal -r backup.bin -V
> Initializing internal programmer
> /sys/class/mtd/mtd0 does not exist
> No coreboot table found.
> Using Internal DMI decoder.
> DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
> DMI string system-manufacturer: "MSI"
> DMI string system-product-name: "MS-7850"
> DMI string system-version: "1.0"
> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "MSI"
> DMI string baseboard-product-name: "H97 PC Mate(MS-7850)"
> DMI string baseboard-version: "1.0"
> Found chipset "Intel H97" with PCI ID 8086:8cc6.
> 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!
> Enabling flash write... Root Complex Register Block address = 0xfed1c000
> Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000fed1c000
> /dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted
> FAILED!
> FATAL ERROR!
> Error: Programmer initialization failed.

Mother MSI H97 PC Mate [WORKING]

[Thomas Heijligen]

Great to here that you have been successful!

And thanks for the info with the lpc_ich driver.

I've create a patch [0] marking the Intel H97 as working

-- Thomas

[0] https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/73581

On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 07:59 -0300, Guillermo Reisch wrote:
> You can mark the "Intel H97" Chipset as working ; "modprobe -r
> lpc_ich" do the 
> trick. I write AMIBIOS v5.8, tested ; and going back to AMIBIOS v5.9.
> ALL OK.
>
> guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59/7850v58$ sudo flashrom -p internal -w
> E7850IMS.
> 580 
> flashrom unknown on Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (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 "Intel H97".
> 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!
> Enabling flash write... SPI Configuration is locked down.
> FREG0: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-write.
> FREG1: BIOS region (0x00980000-0x00ffffff) is read-write.
> FREG2: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x0097ffff) is read-
> write.
> Enabling hardware sequencing because some important opcode is locked.
> OK.
> Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (16384 kB,
> Programmer-
> specific) on internal.
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
>
> Greeteng
> Guillermo Reisch
>
> El martes, 28 de febrero de 2023 16:06:27 -03 Guillermo Reisch
> escribió:
> > Mother home page
> > https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H97-PC-Mate
> >
> > SO:
> >  Debian SID (x86_64)
> >
> > FlashROM version:
> > guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ dpkg -l flashrom
> > Deseado=desconocido(U)/Instalar/eliminaR/Purgar/retener(H)
> > > Estado=No/Inst/ficheros-Conf/desempaqUetado/medio-conF/medio-
> > > inst(H)/esper
> > > a-
> >
> > disparo(W)/pendienTe-disparo
> > > / Err?=(ninguno)/requiere-Reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
> > > > / Nombre         Versión      Arquitectura Descripción
> > +++-==============-============-============-
> >
> > ii  flashrom       1.3.0-2      amd64        Identify, read, write,
> > erase,
> > and verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips
> >
> > LOG:
> >
> > guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ sudo flashrom -p internal -r
> > backup.bin -V
> > flashrom unknown on Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (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).
> > flashrom was built with GCC 12.2.0, little endian
> > Command line (5 args): flashrom -p internal -r backup.bin -V
> > Initializing internal programmer
> > /sys/class/mtd/mtd0 does not exist
> > No coreboot table found.
> > Using Internal DMI decoder.
> > DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
> > DMI string system-manufacturer: "MSI"
> > DMI string system-product-name: "MS-7850"
> > DMI string system-version: "1.0"
> > DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "MSI"
> > DMI string baseboard-product-name: "H97 PC Mate(MS-7850)"
> > DMI string baseboard-version: "1.0"
> > Found chipset "Intel H97" with PCI ID 8086:8cc6.
> > 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!
> > Enabling flash write... Root Complex Register Block address =
> > 0xfed1c000
> > Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000fed1c000
> > /dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted
> > FAILED!
> > FATAL ERROR!
> > Error: Programmer initialization failed.
>
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[Thomas Heijligen]

Hi Guillermo,

it seems that your kernel does not permit access to the needed regions
of /dev/mem.
Can you build a custom kernel with `CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=n` and
`CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n` and try again?

Debian has a good starting point in their documentation [0]

I hope you will be successfull with this modifications.

-- Thomas

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/BuildADebianKernelPackage

On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 16:06 -0300, Guillermo Reisch wrote:
> Mother home page
> https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H97-PC-Mate
>
> SO:
>  Debian SID (x86_64)
>
> FlashROM version:
> guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ dpkg -l flashrom 
> Deseado=desconocido(U)/Instalar/eliminaR/Purgar/retener(H)
> > Estado=No/Inst/ficheros-Conf/desempaqUetado/medio-conF/medio-
> > inst(H)/espera-
>
> disparo(W)/pendienTe-disparo
> > / Err?=(ninguno)/requiere-Reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
> > > / Nombre         Versión      Arquitectura Descripción
> +++-==============-============-============-
>
> ii  flashrom       1.3.0-2      amd64        Identify, read, write,
> erase, and 
> verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips
>
> LOG:
>
> guille@goku:~/Desktop/7850v59$ sudo flashrom -p internal -r
> backup.bin -V
> flashrom unknown on Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (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).
> flashrom was built with GCC 12.2.0, little endian
> Command line (5 args): flashrom -p internal -r backup.bin -V
> Initializing internal programmer
> /sys/class/mtd/mtd0 does not exist
> No coreboot table found.
> Using Internal DMI decoder.
> DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
> DMI string system-manufacturer: "MSI"
> DMI string system-product-name: "MS-7850"
> DMI string system-version: "1.0"
> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "MSI"
> DMI string baseboard-product-name: "H97 PC Mate(MS-7850)"
> DMI string baseboard-version: "1.0"
> Found chipset "Intel H97" with PCI ID 8086:8cc6.
> 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!
> Enabling flash write... Root Complex Register Block address =
> 0xfed1c000
> Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000fed1c000
> /dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted
> FAILED!
> FATAL ERROR!
> Error: Programmer initialization failed.
>
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