[LinuxBIOS] Pm49FL002 Flash

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Tue Jun 7 01:57:53 CEST 2005


Hugo MERCIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm new to this list and to the project. I'd like to add support for
> the Asus A7V600 motherboard (VT8237 and KT600 based). I don't have many
> time, I'am not very familiar with chipset low level programming, but ...
> I found LinuxBios is an interesting project ;)
> 
>   Until now, I spend my time gathering informations (manuals and
> datasheet - with a request to VIA) and looking to the linuxbios code.
> 
>   I just wanted to add flash support to the flash_rom util to start
> something. My motherboard is using the Pm49FL002 flash memory. It's the
> same as the Pm49FL004 with 2Mb instead of 4Mb.
> 
>   With respect to the Pm49FL002 datasheet, it seems to act as Jedec. So,
> I added this to flash_rom.c:
>         {"Pm49FL002",   PMC_ID,         PMC_49FL002,    NULL, 256, 16 *
> 1024,
>          probe_jedec,   erase_chip_jedec, NULL,NULL},
> and to flash_rom.h:
> #define PMC_49FL002       0x6D  /* PMC 49FL002 device code      */
> 
>   I just wanted to test the probing (No erasing or programming yet).
> And ... it fails. flash_rom doesn't find anything : the reported IDs
> bytes are the same as those reported without the probing memory cycles
> (0x555,0xAAA, ...)
> 
>   So ... what am I doing wrong ? Do I have to set some bit in the
> Northbridge registers ?

Here's a copy of flash_enable.c with vt8237 support.

-Bari
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