Re: [flashrom] Writing to a specific Flash region with Layout approach

[Pradeep Ch]

How do I pad the bootloader. img to 8MBytes ? But, still it occupies the
first 106976 Bytes right ? Remaining space is empty I suppose.

Thanks.
On Aug 1, 2016 9:08 PM, "Urja Rannikko"  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Pradeep Ch  wrote:
> > I am attempting to write to a flashrom using layout/region approach.
> > The NOR flash size is 8MBytes. The file size I am writing is 106976
>
> Bytes.
> > The rom.layout file contents are:
> >  00000000:0001a1df test1
> >  0001a1e0:007fffff test2
> >
> > The command I am using is:
> > ./flashrom -p ft2232_spi:type=arm-usb-ocd --layout rom.layout --image
>
> test1
> > -w bootloader.img
> >
> > The error I am getting is :
> > Using region: "test1".
> > Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> > Found Eon flash chip "EN25Q64" (8192 kB, SPI) on ft2232_spi.
> > Error: Image size (106976 B) doesn't match the flash chip's size (8388608
> > B)!
> >
> > Please let me know about the error.
>
> The current layout system will only limit the actually written area,
> not change the requirements of the flash file being the size of the
> chip, so in this case you'd need to pad the bootloader.img to 8MB.