Re: [flashrom] Supermicro X9SRH-7F/7TF

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:25:16 -0800
Eric Donaldson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Sorry about that, thought I had included the command I was running. I was
> just running the probe on it to figure out if I was going to be able to
> read and write to flash, then it said to run it verbosely and submit it.
> `flashrom -p internal:pci=01:00.0`

I think you are confusing the internal programmer with nicintel_spi
(etc). The internal programmer is actually used to access the flash
chip of the mainboard containing the firmware of the board and possibly
its on-board peripherals. Thus it *might* contain the PXE firmware as
well but there is no easy way to prepare images for that.

However, from what you wrote so far I think you want to use
nicintel_spi and friends to access the boot flash of dedicated NICs.
For them the pci parameter makes way more sense as well :)

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

Supermicro X9SRH-7F/7TF

[Eric Donaldson]

Stefan,

Ahh thank you, that makes sense. The nicintel_spi was working when I
pointed it at an actual intel PCI card, but I got pulled away before I
could further experiment between the various commands with the various PCI
address targets.

*Eric Donaldson*


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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Stefan Tauner <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:25:16 -0800
> Eric Donaldson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Sorry about that, thought I had included the command I was running. I was
> > just running the probe on it to figure out if I was going to be able to
> > read and write to flash, then it said to run it verbosely and submit it.
> > `flashrom -p internal:pci=01:00.0`
>
> I think you are confusing the internal programmer with nicintel_spi
> (etc). The internal programmer is actually used to access the flash
> chip of the mainboard containing the firmware of the board and possibly
> its on-board peripherals. Thus it *might* contain the PXE firmware as
> well but there is no easy way to prepare images for that.
>
> However, from what you wrote so far I think you want to use
> nicintel_spi and friends to access the boot flash of dedicated NICs.
> For them the pci parameter makes way more sense as well :)