[coreboot] Problem with M57SLI and newly installed MX25L4005

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Wed Feb 6 18:10:23 CET 2008


On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:40:15PM +0000, Chris Lingard wrote:
> Switch down
> bash-3.2# ./flashrom    -m gigabyte:m57sli  -V
..
> probe_spi: id1 0x7f9d, id2 0x7e
> Probing for PMC unknown SPI chip, 0 KB
> WARNING: size: 0 -> 4096 (page size)
> RDID returned 7f 9d 7e.
> probe_spi: id1 0x7f9d, id2 0x7e
> PMC unknown SPI chip found at physical address 0x100000000.
> Flash part is PMC unknown SPI chip (0 KB).


Executing same a second time - with switch still down it seems.

> bash-3.2# ./flashrom    -m gigabyte:m57sli  -V
..
> probe_spi: id1 0x7f9d, id2 0x7e
> Probing for PMC unknown SPI chip, 0 KB
> WARNING: size: 0 -> 4096 (page size)
> RDID returned 7f 9d 7e.
> probe_spi: id1 0x7f9d, id2 0x7e
> PMC unknown SPI chip found at physical address 0x100000000.
> Flash part is PMC unknown SPI chip (0 KB).


Then throw the switch:

> Switch up
> bash-3.2# ./flashrom    -m gigabyte:m57sli  -V
..
> probe_spi: id1 0x7f9d, id2 0x7d
> Probing for PMC unknown SPI chip, 0 KB
> WARNING: size: 0 -> 4096 (page size)
> RDID returned 7f 9d 7d.
> probe_spi: id1 0x7f9d, id2 0x7d
> PMC unknown SPI chip found at physical address 0x100000000.
> Flash part is PMC unknown SPI chip (0 KB).


This is rather strange. You're using an MX chip but it identifies
itself as PMC. Is the RDID byteorder messed up?


//Peter




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