[LinuxBIOS] Flashrom is not detecting 2MiB flash
Bari Ari
bari at onelabs.com
Wed Sep 6 17:16:12 CEST 2006
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis at gmail.com> [060906 13:42]:
>
>> You are going to run into issues with the VT8237 accessing address
>> space with block locking registers in the SST49LF160C or SST49LF016C.
>>
>>
>> Sure, the original MB flash part is 256KB, but I see it detect 512KB flashes
>> too.
>>
>
> The LF160 is 2048KB, right? So on the VT8237 you see maximum 1/4 of the
> flash.
>
>
The VT8237 has a 4MB FWH/LPC address range.
The SST 49LF devices have control registers located outside of the
address range of the 8237.
There are work-arounds that require the programming guide.
Bari
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