[coreboot] flashrom verify fails, CK804, MCP55

Tiago Marques tiagomnm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 1 17:09:07 CEST 2008


Finally had some time to test this.
The erase command does nothing, I was still able to download the full
BIOS and boot the machine. This using the latest flashrom revision.
First step is to make it erase? Where should I start?

Best regards


On 2/8/08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 29.01.2008 18:59, Tiago Marques wrote:
>  > Any ideas? From where should I start?
>  >
>
>
> Try to erase a chip with "flashrom -E" (just erase, no write, no verify)
>  and then read back the contents with "flashrom -r". Look at the
>  resulting file with xxd or hexdump and check if it is all 0xff.
>  I suspect that it will not be all 0xff when erased in the problematic
>  boards, but it will be all 0xff when erased in the K8T890 board.
>
>  Regards,
>  Carl-Daniel
>
>
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