[coreboot] Flashrom problems on VIA EPIA CN13000G

sunggekun lookicanfly at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 08:30:57 CET 2008


>> I have an VIA EPIA CN13000G board , and bought five SST49LF008A
>> chips from internet.
>
> I'm afraid those chips can not work on that board.
>
>>   No EEPROM/flash device found.
>>
>> Also i tried to flash original BIOS rom (SST49LF004B), it work fine
>> (read/write).
>> So what did i miss? Could someone tell me what to do ?
>
> I believe your original chip is SST49LF040B, not 004B. 004B and 008A
> understand only Firmware commands (they are FWH-compatible) while
> 040B and 080A respond to "LPC Memory Read" commands and are called
> LPC chips.
>
> I suggest trying to find SST49LF080A-33-4C-NHE chips instead.
>
> //Peter

Hi Peter ,
I had checked the original BIOS chip again, it's SST49LF004B,
and the flashrom output:

# ./flashrom
 Calibrating delay loop... ok
 No LinuxBIOS table found.
 Found chipset "VT8237": Enabling flash write... OK.
 Found board "VIA EPIA-CN": Enabling flash write... OK.
 Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512KB) at physical address 0xfff80000

any ideal? Is it possible all the SST49LF008A chips are broken ?




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