[coreboot] Via epia

jtd jtd at mtnl.net.in
Thu Mar 13 12:21:44 CET 2008


On Friday 07 March 2008 02:45 pm, jtd wrote:

flashrom identifies the flash correctly
flashrom reads and verifies correctly.
But verify fails after writing.
Rewriting with the dos flash tools and re verifying with flashrom 
works correctly.

How do i identify the problem?

> I have a mother board with the following
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266
> AGP] 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623
> [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)
>
> The superio is ITE IT8705F (markings on the chip)
>
> superiotool r3127
> Found ITE IT8705F/AF / IT8700F (id=0x8705, rev=0x3) at 0x2e
> Found ITE IT8705F/AF / IT8700F (id=0x8705, rev=0x3) at 0x4e
>
> Flash is a 32 pin PLCC winbond 49V002AP and is flashable by the dos
> prog (actually i run freedos over tftp).
>
> I already have the v2 tree installed and can compile the epia /
> epia-m target . Since these have vt1611 superio, how do I go about
> porting to my board with the rtl8139 and IT8705F.
>
>
> Rgds
> JTD

-- 
Rgds
JTD




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