[flashrom] Flashrom does not work with J7F5M

Arvid Brodin arvidb at kth.se
Mon Jul 6 00:13:12 CEST 2009


Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:12:06PM +0200, Arvid Brodin wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I tested flashrom on my Jetway J7F5M motherboard.
>>
>> # flashrom
>> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
>> No coreboot table found.
>> Found chipset "VIA CX700", enabling flash write... OK.
>> Found chip "Winbond W39V040B" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.
>> No operations were specified.
>>
>> So probing seems to work ok, as do reading. Writing, however, does not
>> work - the image on the flash chip remains unchanged (had a sweaty
>> moment after the FAILED message before I had read the chip again and
>> diffed it against the backed-up original image!).
>>
>> The "Protect flash part" option in BIOS is set to Disabled (I also tried
>> Enabled, just to be sure).
>>
>>
>> Is there any hope on getting flashrom support for this card? The
>> AWDFLASH.EXE utility recommended for flashing by Jetway is "only" some
>> sixty thousand bytes - any hints on reverse engineering this?
>>
>> The computer is head-, FD- and CDR-less and runs linux, so it's a chore
>> to flash it with the d**n DOS utility...
>>
>> -- 
>> Arvid
> 
> Please provide the output of lspci -vnn.
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.

Output at pastebin, good for a month:

http://pastebin.com/m6ceeb699

-- 
Arvid




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