[flashrom] Trial of ARIMA:HDAMA Motherboard

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

[bouncing to list]
On 18.09.2009 13:47, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> was it intentional that you only sent the data to me? It would be great
> to have that data on the list. If possible, please forward your mail to
> the list so other developers can help as well.
>
> On 18.09.2009 07:26, Spangler, Mike T wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for getting back to me. David Hendricks has been giving me some
>> direction also, but has kind of exhausted his ideas. He suggested that
>> I try something around revision 2000, because he thought that he was
>> able to flash an ARIMA board successfully with that version. I also
>> tried revision 2341 which had references in the Changelog to ARIMA.
>> Turns out the results were identical. The results of rev 2000/2341 is
>> that it flashes about 99% of the locations on the PLCC correctly.
>> Below I will give you some output from the flashrom -w command. Also,
>> I've included a comparison between the file I used to write to the
>> flash chip and a new file that I reread from the flashed chip.
>>     
>
> I analyzed the output and the only difference is that the new flashrom
> version detects the problem and the old version ignores it...
>
>   
>> First I will give you what you wanted to know. The chip was originally
>> factory bios. It was either flashed to LinuxBios with lbflash or with
>> a standalone benchtop flasher. I'm trying to flash the chip back to
>> factory bios.
>>     
>
> Of course I'd prefer it if you tried to flash coreboot (new name of
> LinuxBIOS) to these boards, but that's your choice. Anyway, you said you
> have the factory BIOS around somewhere. Is it the one at
> http://flextronics.com/arima/Server/Download/Download/HDAMA189.zip ?
>
>   
>> Output from superiotool -dV
>>
>> Node20:~/coreboot-v2-4645/util/superiotool # ./superiotool -dV
>> superiotool r
>> Found NSC PC87360 (sid=0xe1, srid=0x0f) at 0x2e
>> Register dump:
>> LDN 0x07 (GPIO)
>> idx 30 60 61 70 71 74 75 f0 f1 f2
>> val 00 00 00 00 03 04 04 00 44 01
>> def 00 00 00 00 03 04 04 00 00 00
>>     
>
> Hmm ok. I think we have enough docs to iterate through all possible
> board enables. How many of these boards do you have (in case we trash
> the ROM of one of them)?
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
>
>   


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