[coreboot] Flashrom won't work with DediProg SF100 fw 6.5.03

Vadim Bendebury vbendeb at chromium.org
Tue Jun 2 21:29:05 CEST 2015


On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Steve Goodrich
<steve.goodrich at se-eng.com> wrote:
> I got the Chromium version of flashrom to work, but it takes 20 minutes to
> flash/verify the 8 MB device.  So, while "working" is far better than "not
> working", it is a bit sluggish.  :-)
>
> Any thoughts on speeding it up?
>

usually only part of the image needs to be programmed. If you need to
do this often, you might want to create a flash layout file and
program only areas which need to be programmed.

--vb

>      -- Steve G.
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Steve Goodrich <steve.goodrich at se-eng.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Duncan!  I'll have a look.
>>
>>      -- Steve G.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Duncan Laurie <dlaurie at chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Steve Goodrich
>>> <steve.goodrich at se-eng.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a DediProg SF100 programmer that I want to use with flashrom
>>>> under Linux.  Unfortunately, the SF100 has firmware version 6.5.03 and I
>>>> can't use flashrom with it.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a solution.  Does anyone have (or know where/how I can
>>>> get):
>>>> 1) A version of SF100 firmware that will work with flashrom?
>>>> 2) A version of flashrom that will work with SF100 6.5.3?
>>>> 3) A Linux tool -- other than flashrom -- that will work with the SF100
>>>> with its current firmware?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help you can provide!
>>>>      -- Steve G.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> There is a patch in the chromium flashrom tree that add support for
>>> firmware 6.0+ (which may or may not include 6.5.3) that does not seem to be
>>> in the upstream flashrom:
>>>
>>> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/flashrom/+/543101a06832b4e3a0d89ec9bf81ec398ff5808e
>>>
>>> I suspect the chromium flashrom tree has diverged enough from upstream
>>> that it will not apply cleanly there but it is only a 130 line patch so it
>>> shouldn't be too bad to integrate if needed.
>>>
>>> -duncan
>>>
>>
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