When you run the "apt-get install flashrom" command, you get the flashrom version that was build by the package maintainers of your Linux. If they cloned and built this flashrom version quite long ago, you get the old version with this apt-get. The easiest way to get the latest version is to clone the latest flashrom source code - git clone https://review.coreboot.org/flashrom , and then build it from source by running " make " command. Maybe you need some dependencies installed before you could successfully compile this. Please check this page - https://www.flashrom.org/Downloads#Installation_from_source - it contains some package names that you might have to install before running "make" . On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM fugee ohu fugee279@gmail.com wrote:
I see sorry about that I might have checked what version I was running The message made me think my version was too new and I was actually even trying to install older versions starting with 9.0 and FTDI support wasn't found so make failed Installing FTDI support requires file operations and symlinks and there's no easy way to install otherwise that I know of I assume you built FTDI support into later versions Whatever version I was running, that's what I got when I ran apt-get install flashrom on raspbian Will I have to compile the latest release from source?
On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 2:29 AM Mike Banon mikebdp2@gmail.com wrote:
Could you please test with the latest flashrom version? Yours is a bit outdated, maybe git clone https://review.coreboot.org/flashrom and make? Also, what is a chip that you are trying to access, please tell the markings written on it. And check that your connectivity is correct, that the wires aren't too long, etc.
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 7:47 PM fugee ohu fugee279@gmail.com wrote:
I get the long error message shown below but I can't find the log file to show you I don't know where it is, it's not in /var/log I assume there's only one Winbond chip on the board I found the Winbond chip and assume it's the bios chip
This flash part has status NOT WORKING for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version, please email a report to flashrom at flashrom.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line. Thanks for your help! Read is not working on this chip. Aborting. [florin at stick flashrom]$ sudo ./flashrom -p ch341a_spi -r ~/Desktop/bios.bin flashrom v0.9.9-r1954 on Linux 4.10.11-1-ARCH (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... ^[[AOK.
Found Generic flash chip "unknown SPI chip (RDID)" (0 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. === This flash part has status NOT WORKING for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version, please email a report to flashrom at flashrom.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line. Thanks for your help! Read is not working on this chip. Aborting. _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- flashrom@flashrom.org To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-leave@flashrom.org
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