[flashrom] Asus A7v600-X works with stable v0.9.0 but not with bleeding edge

[Putlinuxonit]

Hi All,

I'd like to report than an Asus A7V600-X with bios 1009 works with flashrom
0.9.0 stable. The stock version found on the latest stable realease of
systemrescuecd 1.2.3.

There are some caveats however...

find below a few dumps for your review.

root at sysresccd% ./flashrom
*flashrom v0.9.0*
No coreboot table found.
*Found chipset "VIA VT8237"*, enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
*Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB, LPC,FWH)* at physical address
0xfffc0000.
No operations were specified.

The strange thing is that when i tried using the bleeding edge r694 i get
the following

root at sysresccd /root % ./flashrom -w fimrwarea7v600-x.old
*flashrom v0.9.0-r694*
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB, LPC,FWH) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... Programming page: ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000!
Expected=0xff, Read=0x03, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00003fff:
0x33a6
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or
mail flashrom at flashrom.org
------------------------------------------------------------
DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

i then use the stock 0.9.0 version to reprogramme and i get this

root at sysresccd /root % flashrom -w  fimrwarea7v600-x.old
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Programming page: 0015 at address: 0x0003c000

 i* verify if it's written ok*
root at sysresccd /root % flashrom -v fimrwarea7v600-x.old
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
root at sysresccd /root % flashrom -R
*flashrom v0.9.0*


so basically,
When i use the stock v0.9.0 to dump and write back  the firmware on my
A7v600-x, everything is fine.

when i try to use the current svn. r694, it fails.

i had to reflash with stable 0.9.0 after the r694 failed. I've successfully
rebooted and verified no damage done to motherboard.

interestingly, I downloaded the latest version of the bios (1009) off asus
website, same version as i'm running and when i unzip it yeilds an *.awd ( i
guess award) file.

This file is supposed to be the same version as the one i'm running but when
i try both stock v0.9.0 and r694 on it. they  both fail. Beats me. maybe the
awardflasher file format is different from what I get when i do* "flashrom
-r firmware-old.bin"*
*
*
I've also compared md5 checksums on both the firmware-old.bin and the one
downloaded off the asus website but they both give different results even
though they are meant to be the same version (1009).



Anyway, hats-off to the devs for all the good work.


idlogin

-- 
Udu E. Ogah
.~~~~~~~~~~.

attachments

I've attached flashrom -V dumps for both 0.9.0 and r694
latest Asus bios for A7v600-X
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