[coreboot] Newbee patch for A49LF040A (Alix2c2) please have a look.

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sat Jun 7 13:40:39 CEST 2008


On 07.06.2008 05:47, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 05:37:05AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> I suspect one of the other probe functions is killing communication with
>> the chip. If that's not the case, maybe we don't leave ID mode correctly.
>>
>> Can you try repeated
>> flashrom -c A49LF040A
>> (I forgot the exact chipname specification) after a cold boot?
>>     
>
> Yeah, that works:
>
> littleredbox:/usr/src/flashrom3# ./flashrom -c A49LF040A
> [...]
> Found chip "Amic Technology A49LF040A" (512 KB) at physical address
> 0xfff80000.
> [...]
> No operations were specified.
> littleredbox:/usr/src/flashrom3# ./flashrom -c A49LF040A
> [...]
> Found chip "Amic Technology A49LF040A" (512 KB) at physical address
> 0xfff80000.
> [...]
> No operations were specified.
> littleredbox:/usr/src/flashrom3# ./flashrom -c A49LF040A
> [...]
> Found chip "Amic Technology A49LF040A" (512 KB) at physical address
> 0xfff80000.
> [...]
> No operations were specified.
>   

Ouch. So one of the other probe functions kills communication. Can one
of you try disabling other chip definitions in flashchips.c with #if 0
to narrow this problem down?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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