[coreboot] Lenovo N20p Chromebook

[Aaron Durbin]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:44 AM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie> wrote:
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>>>>>> I'm trying to flash the ROM externally now, but it's telling me it
>>>>>> can't
>>>>>> disable block protection. It gets as far as trying to erase 0x600000,
>>>>>> then
>>>>>> goes through all the erase functions, finally crapping out. Do you
>>>>>> know
>>>>>> how
>>>>>> I can work-around that?
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The write protect screw is removed, right? After that the flash's
>>>>> write protect register needs to be updated.  Do you know the status
>>>>> register values? Flashrom should be able to do that.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it is definitely removed - I didn't put it back in after the
>>>> initial
>>>> brick. It says the register value is 0x94 - I did also hook up the Bus
>>>> Pirate for use with statically linked ChromeOS Flashrom (as the
>>>> particular
>>>> version I have doesn't have Dediprog support) - I had an idea running
>>>> --wp-disable might help, but it didn't recognise the chip and said the
>>>> register was already 0x94 (paraphrasing). I am currently compiling a
>>>> newer
>>>> statically linked version of ChromeOS Flashrom using the SDK, in the
>>>> hope
>>>> that might be able to do the job. Am I barking up the wrong tree
>>>> though, or
>>>> is there something else I could do?
>>>
>>>
>>> You are in the right spot. The fact that it failed at 6MiB is very
>>> indicative of the SPI part write protection. There are, however, more
>>> than one status register. There should be 3 of them:
>>>
>>> Read Status Register-1 (05h), Status Register-2 (35h) & Status
>>> Register-3 (15h)
>>>
>>> Btw, I'm referencing W25Q64FW datasheet.
>>>
>>> -Aaron
>>>
>> Yeah, using --wp-status with Clapper's Flashrom tells me that the write
>> protect *is* enabled, after all. But I can't see where, apart from the
>> screw I took out right next to the battery, the write-protect screw
>> would be? And I'm confused as to why it let me write initially if the
>> write-protect wasn't enabled.
>>
>> This is the output I get trying to run --wp-disable:
>>
>> w25_set_srp0: old status: 0x94
>> w25_set_srp0: new status: 0x94
>> w25q_disable_writeprotect(): error=1.
>> No -i argument is specified, set ignore_fmap.
>> FAILED
>> Setting SPI voltage to 0.000 V
>> restore_power_management: Re-enabling power management.
>>
>
> I've sorted it out now - had to bridge pins 3,7 and 8 using a large
> paper-clip, as alluded to in the OSCON presentation, referenced by Barry
> Schultz. Never had to do that before, oddly.

Interesting. You had to hard pull WP# and HOLD#. I need to take a look
at that circuit. I wouldn't have expected you to do that either.