Re: [flashrom] SFDP has autodetected a flash chip which is not natively supported by flashrom yet

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 03:38:14 +0800
Greg Tippit  wrote:
> First off, thank you for your work on such a useful program.  I have
> used it more times that I can remember, and I have never had a single
> problem flashing a motherboard BIOS using your program.  If you
> accepted PayPal donations, I would buy you all a beverage of your
> choice.
>
> I have a new stick PC from China called the MeeGoPad T02, which uses
> an Intel Atom SOC.
>
> They have a little English support at x86pad.com, where I found a
> updated BIOS for this device.
>
> When I made of backup of the existing BIOS on the device, I got the
> message about it not yet having native support.  The read seemed to go
> okay.  I have attached a copy of the verbose output as you requested.
>
> Assuming all the normal warnings, is it safe to try flashing the new
> BIOS using flashrom, or should I wait for you to work your "Native
> Magic"?

Hi,

AFAICT it should work fine. However, full support was already added and
is available since commit r1889. So you could also upgrade if you like.
I'd appreciate a report afterwards in any case. ;)

SFDP has autodetected a flash chip which is not natively supported by flashrom yet

[Greg Tippitt]

I run the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version, and forgot to check for an updated
version of flashrom.

I tried it, and the flash seem to go fine.  The BIOS update didn't solve
the problem I was having, but it Flashrom did its part valiantly.

Thanks
Greg

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Stefan Tauner <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 03:38:14 +0800
> Greg Tippit  wrote:
> > First off, thank you for your work on such a useful program.  I have
> > used it more times that I can remember, and I have never had a single
> > problem flashing a motherboard BIOS using your program.  If you
> > accepted PayPal donations, I would buy you all a beverage of your
> > choice.
> >
> > I have a new stick PC from China called the MeeGoPad T02, which uses
> > an Intel Atom SOC.
> >
> > They have a little English support at x86pad.com, where I found a
> > updated BIOS for this device.
> >
> > When I made of backup of the existing BIOS on the device, I got the
> > message about it not yet having native support.  The read seemed to go
> > okay.  I have attached a copy of the verbose output as you requested.
> >
> > Assuming all the normal warnings, is it safe to try flashing the new
> > BIOS using flashrom, or should I wait for you to work your "Native
> > Magic"?
>
> Hi,
>
> AFAICT it should work fine. However, full support was already added and
> is available since commit r1889. So you could also upgrade if you like.
> I'd appreciate a report afterwards in any case. ;)