EPIA-M "Magic Potion"?

John Laur johnl at blurbco.com
Fri Mar 26 13:01:01 CET 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Hendricks David W.
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 11:49 AM
> To: John Laur
> Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> Subject: Re: EPIA-M "Magic Potion"?
> 
> What is the model/part number on your flash? It *might* work with the
code
> already in flash_and_burn, but we might need to add a device id or
> something.
> 

You will have to forgive me; I am still pretty green with this whole
thing. Which model/part number do you need exactly? I have included some
information here, but if you need to know something else, please just
let me know, and I'll be happy to provide it.

I am using an RD1-PL Bios Savior with the original BIOS chip in the
socket. Flash_rom recognizes neither the original BIOS nor the backup
flash part (I don't know exactly what chip the RD1-PL uses offhand.)

When the RD1 is switched to the ORG (original bios), AWFLASH.EXE reports
the following:

For VT8623-8235-CLE26I01C-00 DATE: 12/11/2003
Flash Type - SST 39SF020 /5V

The actual chip says on it:

SST
MPF
39SF020A
70-4C-NH
0219037-A

Here is the output of my lspci -vvn for the southbridge (00:11.0 ISA
bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge):

00:11.0 Class 0601: 1106:3177
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Here is what flash_rom returns. As you can see it's probing for the
SST29SF020A, which is what I have, and failing:

m3:~/freebios/util/flash_and_burn# setpci -s 0:11.0  40.b=54

m3:~/freebios/util/flash_and_burn# ./flash_rom
Calibrating timer since microsleep sucks ... takes a second
Setting up microsecond timing loop
199M loops per second
OK, calibrated, now do the deed
Enabling flash write on VT8235...OK
Trying Am29F040B, 512 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Trying At29C040A, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Trying Mx29f002, 256 KB
probe_29f002: id1 37, id2 0
Trying SST29EE020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x25, id2 0x0
Trying SST28SF040A, 512 KB
probe_28sf040: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Trying SST39SF020A, 256 KB
probe_39sf020: id1 0x25, id2 0x0
Trying SST39VF020, 256 KB
probe_39sf020: id1 0x25, id2 0x0
Trying W29C011, 128 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x68, id2 0x5b
Trying W29C020C, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x25, id2 0x0
Trying W49F002U, 256 KB
probe_49f002: id1 0x25, id2 0x0
Trying M29F400BT, 512 KB
probe_m29f400bt: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Trying 82802ab, 512 KB
probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Trying 82802ac, 1024 KB
probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Trying MD-2802 (M-Systems DiskOnChip Millennium Module), 8 KB
probe_md2802:
probe_md2802: *******************************
probe_md2802: * THIS IS A PRE ALPHA VERSION *
probe_md2802: * IN THE DEVELOPEMENT *********
probe_md2802: * PROCESS RIGHT NOW. **********
probe_md2802: *******************************
probe_md2802: * IF YOU ARE NOT A DEVELOPER **
probe_md2802: * THEN DO NOT TRY TO READ OR **
probe_md2802: * WRITE TO THIS DEVICE ********
probe_md2802: *******************************
probe_md2802:
probe_md2802: switching off reset mode ...
probe_md2802: switching off reset mode ... done
probe_md2802:
probe_md2802: switching off write protection ...
probe_md2802: switching off write protection ... done
probe_md2802:
probe_md2802: IPL_0x0000: 0x41
probe_md2802: IPL_0x0001: 0x77
probe_md2802: IPL_0x0002: 0x61
probe_md2802: IPL_0x0003: 0x72
probe_md2802:
probe_md2802: ChipID: 0x0e
probe_md2802: DOCStatus: 0x17
probe_md2802: FloorSelect: 0x01
probe_md2802: CDSNControl: 0xeb
probe_md2802: CDSNDeviceSelect: 0x2c
probe_md2802: ECCConfiguration: 0xf6
probe_md2802: CDSNSlowIO: 0x2e
probe_md2802: ECCSyndrome0: 0x01
probe_md2802: ECCSyndrome1: 0x86
probe_md2802: ECCSyndrome2: 0xc4
probe_md2802: ECCSyndrome3: 0x8b
probe_md2802: ECCSyndrome4: 0x1e
probe_md2802: ECCSyndrome5: 0x1c
probe_md2802: AliasResolution: 0x83
probe_md2802: ConfigurationInput: 0xc3
probe_md2802: ReadPipelineInitialization: 0x02
probe_md2802: LastDataRead: 0x1e
probe_md2802:
probe_md2802: checking ECCConfiguration toggle bit
probe_md2802: 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x01
probe_md2802: toggle result: 5/5
EEPROM not found

Thank you, everyone for all the help. Hopefully, I can get this thing
figured out eventually.

John

> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Laur wrote:
> > 2) I cannot for the life of me flash the BIOS under Linux. For now,
I
> > have to reboot to a DOS floppy and flash the original BIOS, then
reboot
> > again and flash the LinuxBIOS image (AWFLASH will for some reason
not
> > flash a LinuxBIOS image over a LinuxBIOS image already on the flash
> > part) I have run 'setpci -s 0:11.0  40.b=54' as described in the
docs
> > and on the mailing list, but flash_rom still detects no flash
device.
> 
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