I have added some flashrom and linux logs which might be helpfull:
The USB 3 PCI card has the following system properties: DRIVER=xhci_hcd PCI_CLASS=C0330 PCI_ID=1033:0194 PCI_SUBSYS_ID=1033:0194 PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:03:00.0 MODALIAS=pci:v00001033d00000194sv00001033sd00000194bc0Csc03i30
There is also a PCI NIC Intel 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (8086:107c, BDF 02:0a.0) and a PCI soundcard installed.
Tried to read the flash rom out of the 82541PI Intel NIC without problems. /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:0a.0 of the Intel NIC also gives access to "rom" which the USB 3 and the soundcard do not. I am not sure if that means that the rom is not accessible at all or if Ubuntu just does not know how.
Thanks in advance, brgds Philipp
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Philipp Post [mailto:Post.Philipp@googlemail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013 19:23 An: 'flashrom@flashrom.org' Betreff: USB 3 PCI Card support (request to add device)
Good day,
following configuration:
- USB 3 PCI (not PCI-Express) card with RENESAS uPD720200A(Revision 4) USB chip and ATMEL AT25F512B (ATMEL 1138, 25F512B, SSH) rom chip in - IBM NetVista 8305 Desktop PC - built year 2003
The issue with the card is that it needs a flash rom update to work with Windows Vista and up, otherwise the device does not work at all in these OS ("device cannot start"). Windows XP with Renesas drivers and Linux Ubuntu 11.3 out of the box works fine.
RENESAS has a rom update for the chip and a flash update tool which however does not work with PCI cards, but just chips soldered to mainboards. At least this seems to me the reason why it does not work. Chip is recognized but the RENESAS tool says "Can not load / access firmware". The tool has the option to change the device / vendor id as well via .ini file.
The card used is the only PCI USB 3 card on the market and basically works very well when it works - with max PCI speed of course, which means approx. double speed of USB 2. The card exists in hardware version 1 (RENESAS chip uPD720200A) and 2 (RENESAS chip uPD720202). I do just have access to hardware version 1. The name of the manufacturer behind the card is unknown to me, but it could be an ADDONICS product. I do not have a technical drawing of the card and I fear I can not obtain one but I do have the card itself.
My question: would it be possible to incorporate this card into flashrom? Would be great if someone could do it as I do not have the necessary skills to do it myself.
In case you need further information, please let me know.
Thanks in advance, brgds Philipp
Links and further reading: --------------------------
Card Information from different sellers (same card): http://www.addonics.com/products/ad2u3pci.php http://eu.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/USB-3.0/Cards/2-Port-PCI-SuperSpeed-US B-3-Card-Adapter~PCIUSB3S2 http://www.lindy.de/premium-usb-3-karte-2-port-pci/51082.html
ATMEL rom specification (contains info how to write rom images): www.atmel.com/Images/doc3689.pdf
Renesas USB chip information: http://www.renesas.eu/products/soc/usb_assp/product/upd720200a/index.jsp
RENESAS rom update 4.0.2.0 with Windows updater (32 + 64 Bit) and drivers: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/renesas.htm We need: "Firmware Version 4.0.2.0 pour uPD720200a"
RENESAS MS DOS flash update tool (which did not do the job): http://www.computerbase.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=283282&d=13... 3319
IBM NetVista 8305 Hardware Maintenance Manual: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/netvista_pdf/24p2969.pdf
Hardware Ids: Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller: PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_0194&SUBSYS_01941033&REV_04\5&25043F3&0&0048F0
Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Root Hub NUSB3\ROOT_HUB30\6&2D374EF3&2
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:18:48 +0100 Philipp Post post.philipp@googlemail.com wrote:
hello philipp
Von: Philipp Post [mailto:Post.Philipp@googlemail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013 19:23 An: 'flashrom@flashrom.org' Betreff: USB 3 PCI Card support (request to add device)
Good day,
following configuration:
- USB 3 PCI (not PCI-Express) card with RENESAS uPD720200A(Revision 4) USB
chip and ATMEL AT25F512B (ATMEL 1138, 25F512B, SSH) rom chip in
flashrom supports the chip in the current version. but the flash interface of the renesas chip does not give full access to the chip anyway, so that is not needed anyway (see below).
- IBM NetVista 8305 Desktop PC - built year 2003
The issue with the card is that it needs a flash rom update to work with Windows Vista and up, otherwise the device does not work at all in these OS ("device cannot start"). Windows XP with Renesas drivers and Linux Ubuntu 11.3 out of the box works fine.
RENESAS has a rom update for the chip and a flash update tool which however does not work with PCI cards, but just chips soldered to mainboards. At least this seems to me the reason why it does not work. Chip is recognized but the RENESAS tool says "Can not load / access firmware". The tool has the option to change the device / vendor id as well via .ini file.
stupid question... but this sounds a bit as if it could not find the file, maybe that's the problem? you say the tool detects the chip... which one? the uPD720200A or the AT25F512B?
The card used is the only PCI USB 3 card on the market and basically works very well when it works - with max PCI speed of course, which means approx. double speed of USB 2. The card exists in hardware version 1 (RENESAS chip uPD720200A) and 2 (RENESAS chip uPD720202). I do just have access to hardware version 1. The name of the manufacturer behind the card is unknown to me, but it could be an ADDONICS product. I do not have a technical drawing of the card and I fear I can not obtain one but I do have the card itself.
drawings won't help much anyway :) if at all we would need you to test our code on the real hardware.
My question: would it be possible to incorporate this card into flashrom? Would be great if someone could do it as I do not have the necessary skills to do it myself.
i had to create an account on renesas' website to get the datasheet and a few other documents. they are quite informative in general but there is very little detail about the SPI interface unfortunately. OTOH the datasheet of the uPD720202 describes the SPI and firmware access in detail and from what i have seen i would presume that it is at least very similar to the 200A interface.
so to answer your question: yes, adding support is probably possible. the interface is not very nice to work with, because it does not give direct access to the SPI bus and hence it would not be a nice generic SPI flash controller (like the intel nics are), but reading and writing firmware should be possible to get working.
i dont think any of the regulars here will be motivated to try though and i do not presume that you would like to hire someone to do it? :)
In case you need further information, please let me know.
please send us the output of lspci -nnxxxvv -d 1033:0194
[…] Tried to read the flash rom out of the 82541PI Intel NIC without problems. /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:0a.0 of the Intel NIC also gives access to "rom" which the USB 3 and the soundcard do not. I am not sure if that means that the rom is not accessible at all or if Ubuntu just does not know how.
i dont know for sure but i guess that's not the full rom anyway and it is probably read-only. flashrom does not care anyway.
Hello Stefan,
thanks for your message and taking the time to look into this.
stupid question... but this sounds a bit as if it could not find the
file, maybe that's the problem? you say the tool detects the chip... which one? the uPD720200A or the AT25F512B? <<
I have checked this already and tried the Windows and DOS versions of the tool. I tried up- and download of firmware, but both end up with "cannot load firmware" or error 9 which apparently means the same = no access to the firmware. The tool reports that it detects the RENESAS uPD720200A not the ATMEL AT25F512B however.
I do assume that the tool cannot handle PCI access, but motherboards only - and maybe PCIe cards.
This card has also a PERICOM PCIe to PCI bridge on it. Apparently the RENESAS chip needs PCIe to work with, which is translated back to the motherboard's PCI slot with this bridge: 02:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Pericom Semiconductor Device [12d8:e111] (rev 02)
if at all we would need you to test our code on the real hardware.<<
Appreciate to do this. I do have the flashrom source code on the Ubuntu installation. I did a successful build already ("make install"). - But I do not have experience in C programming, just in VB, VBA and SQL.
i had to create an account on renesas' website to get the datasheet and a
few other documents. they are quite informative in general but there is very little detail about the SPI interface unfortunately. OTOH the datasheet of the uPD720202 describes the SPI and firmware access in detail and from what i have seen i would presume that it is at least very similar to the 200A interface. <<
To be honest, I am not sure and looked at the papers there as well with the same result. The uPD720200 and uPD720200A seem to be NEC chips which RENESAS inherited when they took over NEC. The newer devices are developed by Renesas themselves I guess. uPD720200 and uPD720200A are closer to each other where uPD720200A has improved power management. Maybe RENESAS just provides the rom programming papers for uPD720200A on request, however I did not ask yet.
so to answer your question: yes, adding support is probably possible.
the interface is not very nice to work with, because it does not give direct access to the SPI bus and hence it would not be a nice generic SPI flash controller (like the intel nics are), but reading and writing firmware should be possible to get working. i dont think any of the regulars here will be motivated to try though and i do not presume that you would like to hire someone to do it? :) <<
That would not make much sense to fix a 40 EUR device indeed. Nevertheless I think adding support to fix the RENESAS USB 3 chips would provide additional value to flashrom as I see much trouble reports also for mainboards (from Asus and others) on the web. I would be willing to give a moderate donnation to the flashrom project if things could be fixed successfully but this will certainly not pay the time of anyone.
What about creating a simple patch which shows if we could access the firmware at all and stop there if it does not work?
please send us the output of lspci -nnxxxvv -d 1033:0194 <<
output of lspci -nnxxxvv -d 1033:0194 03:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1033:0194] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) Subsystem: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1033:0194] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at a0300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Kernel modules: xhci-hcd 00: 33 10 94 01 06 05 10 00 04 30 03 0c 08 00 00 00 10: 04 00 30 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 33 10 94 01 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00
Thanks + brgds Philipp Post
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 18:11:43 +0100 Philipp Post post.philipp@googlemail.com wrote:
What about creating a simple patch which shows if we could access the firmware at all and stop there if it does not work?
the lspci output might indicate exactly that. it would be nice if you could mail renesas and ask them for differences in the firmware/flash access procedures between the uPD720200A and the uPD720201/uPD720202. if they are equal we might come up with something...
please send us the output of lspci -nnxxxvv -d 1033:0194 <<
run it as root please; else not the complete config space dump will be produced :)
Stefan,
it would be nice if you could mail renesas and ask them for differences
in the firmware/flash access procedures between the uPD720200A and the uPD720201/uPD720202. if they are equal we might come up with something...<<
Renesas replied the following: "Renesas cannot assist or support such an effort. In addition, the programming interface for the uPD720200 and uPD720200A is different from the uPD720202, needs different programming tools, and relies on proprietary chip features that cannot be disclosed outside of Renesas."
please send us the output of lspci -nnxxxvv -d 1033:0194
run it as root please; else not the complete config space dump will be produced :) <<
root@PC02: lspci -nnxxxvv -d 1033:0194 03:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1033:0194] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) Subsystem: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1033:0194] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at a0300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked- Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00001000 PBA: BAR=0 offset=00001080 Capabilities: [a0] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <4us, L1 unlimited ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk- ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+ DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Kernel modules: xhci-hcd 00: 33 10 94 01 06 05 10 00 04 30 03 0c 08 00 00 00 10: 04 00 30 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 33 10 94 01 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50: 01 70 03 48 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60: 30 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70: 05 90 86 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90: 11 a0 07 80 00 10 00 00 80 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0: 10 00 02 00 c0 8f 00 00 00 28 09 00 12 ec 07 00 b0: 00 01 11 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0: 00 00 00 00 10 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d0: 02 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0: fc 1f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0: 08 14 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Due to above, I am closing the file.
brgds
Philipp
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 21:02:06 +0100 Philipp Post post.philipp@googlemail.com wrote:
Stefan,
it would be nice if you could mail renesas and ask them for differences
in the firmware/flash access procedures between the uPD720200A and the uPD720201/uPD720202. if they are equal we might come up with something...<<
Renesas replied the following: "Renesas cannot assist or support such an effort. In addition, the programming interface for the uPD720200 and uPD720200A is different from the uPD720202, needs different programming tools, and relies on proprietary chip features that cannot be disclosed outside of Renesas."
i was notified that someone else implemented a DOS flasher for the uPD720201/uPD720202 in assembler. i don't have time to look into it in detail, but maybe the existing code (and precompiled binary) is of use to you. http://komposter.com.ua/content/kak-vosstanovit-proshivku-renesas-upd72020x-... (google translate somewhat works :)
Stefan,
thanks a lot for letting me know.
In fact there is even source code in c available for uPD720201 / uPD720202 which comes with the firmware files from Renesas.
As Renesas said, these both are not compatible with mine and furthermore it seems that the access problems on my device come from the PCI to PCI-Express bride (said a technician from a seller of these cards in the US) I have put this case aside.
For the time being I will stick to USB 2 until the manufacturers solved the problems and most likely I will not be keen to buy hardware with Renesas chips again.
brgds Philipp
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Stefan Tauner [mailto:stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 10:57 An: Philipp Post Cc: flashrom@flashrom.org Betreff: Re: [flashrom] USB 3 PCI Card support (request to add device)
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 21:02:06 +0100 Philipp Post post.philipp@googlemail.com wrote:
Stefan,
it would be nice if you could mail renesas and ask them for differences
in the firmware/flash access procedures between the uPD720200A and the uPD720201/uPD720202. if they are equal we might come up with something...<<
Renesas replied the following: "Renesas cannot assist or support such an effort. In addition, the programming interface for the uPD720200 and uPD720200A is different from the uPD720202, needs different programming tools, and relies on proprietary chip features that cannot be disclosed outside of Renesas."
i was notified that someone else implemented a DOS flasher for the uPD720201/uPD720202 in assembler. i don't have time to look into it in detail, but maybe the existing code (and precompiled binary) is of use to you. http://komposter.com.ua/content/kak-vosstanovit-proshivku-renesas-upd72020x- 2013-06-03 (google translate somewhat works :)
-- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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