Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

[Vadim Bulst]

Dear list,

I'm curious to know if it is possible to flash iPXE to these nics. 
PCI-Id is listed in supported devices - 8086:1533 .

[root@urzospoc01 src]# flashrom -p nicintel_eeprom:pci=01:00.0
flashrom v1.0 on Linux 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (4 kB, 
Programmer-specific) on nicintel_eeprom.
No operations were specified.

When i build a rom for this specific nic the file has a size of 70kB.

Is there a way to get this rom to the nics?

Cheers,

Vadim

[Alex Henderson]

Vadim:
    Usually programming the firmware ROMs for Intel NICs requires software from Intel. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005790/software/... may do the trick.
    	Alex

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Subject: [flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

Dear list,

I'm curious to know if it is possible to flash iPXE to these nics. 
PCI-Id is listed in supported devices - 8086:1533 .

[root@urzospoc01 src]# flashrom -p nicintel_eeprom:pci=01:00.0 flashrom v1.0 on Linux 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (4 kB,
Programmer-specific) on nicintel_eeprom.
No operations were specified.

When i build a rom for this specific nic the file has a size of 70kB.

Is there a way to get this rom to the nics?

Cheers,

Vadim

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[Nico Huber]

Hello Vadim,

On 06.03.2018 09:50, Vadim Bulst wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm curious to know if it is possible to flash iPXE to these nics.
> PCI-Id is listed in supported devices - 8086:1533 .
>
> [root@urzospoc01 src]# flashrom -p nicintel_eeprom:pci=01:00.0
> flashrom v1.0 on Linux 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
>
> Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
> Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (4 kB,
> Programmer-specific) on nicintel_eeprom.
> No operations were specified.
>
> When i build a rom for this specific nic the file has a size of 70kB.
>
> Is there a way to get this rom to the nics?

I don't know much about these NICs or flashrom's driver. But a quick
look at the code shows that this 4KiB "Opaque flash chip" is actually
an emulated EEPROM. 70KiB seem too large for an EEPROM anyway, did you
try `-p nicintel_spi` as well? It should detect an SPI flash chip, if
present.

Nico

[Vadim Bulst]

Hi Nico,

i didn't tried. Well - i can give it another shot. But i think i won't 
be able because it is a LOM (NIC on Motherboard).

Cheers,

Vadim

On 06.03.2018 21:30, Nico Huber wrote:
> Hello Vadim,
>
> On 06.03.2018 09:50, Vadim Bulst wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I'm curious to know if it is possible to flash iPXE to these nics.
> > PCI-Id is listed in supported devices - 8086:1533 .
> >
> > [root@urzospoc01 src]# flashrom -p nicintel_eeprom:pci=01:00.0
> > flashrom v1.0 on Linux 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
> > flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
> >
> > Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
> > Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (4 kB,
> > Programmer-specific) on nicintel_eeprom.
> > No operations were specified.
> >
> > When i build a rom for this specific nic the file has a size of 70kB.
> >
> > Is there a way to get this rom to the nics?
>
> I don't know much about these NICs or flashrom's driver. But a quick
> look at the code shows that this 4KiB "Opaque flash chip" is actually
> an emulated EEPROM. 70KiB seem too large for an EEPROM anyway, did you
> try `-p nicintel_spi` as well? It should detect an SPI flash chip, if
> present.
>
> Nico