[flashrom] ASUS A8N/A8N-SLI Deluxe clarification (was: Re: erase failed on ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe.)

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 03:40:20PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> > 
> > I've been unsuccessful in updating by BIOS on my ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
> > motherboard using flashrom. To my novice eyes it looks like the first
> > 768kB has been erased and the rest left as is....
> > 
> > I'll put some information below....
> > 
> 
> Although i think that this will be more a flashchip issue than 
> anything else, please give this patch a whirl.
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.

> >From 1279b579a377a638c7f9045519a1b9e0e8497828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:18 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Board: Add Asus A8N.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be>
> ---
>  board_enable.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/board_enable.c b/board_enable.c
> index 19a77e9..f8b1e10 100644
> --- a/board_enable.c
> +++ b/board_enable.c
> @@ -1128,6 +1128,7 @@ struct board_pciid_enable board_pciid_enables[] = {
>  	{0x1106, 0x3189, 0x1043, 0x807F,  0x1106, 0x3065, 0x1043, 0x80ED, NULL,         NULL,          "ASUS",        "A7V600-X",           board_asus_a7v600x},
>  	{0x1106, 0x3189, 0x1043, 0x807F,  0x1106, 0x3177, 0x1043, 0x808C, NULL,         NULL,          "ASUS",        "A7V8X",              board_asus_a7v8x},
>  	{0x1106, 0x3177, 0x1043, 0x80A1,  0x1106, 0x3205, 0x1043, 0x8118, NULL,         NULL,          "ASUS",        "A7V8X-MX SE",        w836xx_memw_enable_2e},
> +	{0x10DE, 0x005E, 0x1043, 0x815A,  0x10DE, 0x0054, 0x1043, 0x815A, NULL,         NULL,          "ASUS",        "A8N",                board_shuttle_fn25},

Hi, this patch was comitted as r949. We currently mark the board-enable
as untested. Andreas, can you please try if the latest flashrom version
from svn trunk detects your board correctly and (more importantly) if
writing/erasing the chip in that board works OK?

Also, which board exactly do you have, the "ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe" or
"ASUS A8N"? If the first, we need to fix the name in our code.

The A8N seems to be a laptop also, see:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=piUw2tNdosMjBF36

Please post the following output if possible:

 * flashrom -V
 * lspci -nnvvvxxx (as root)
 * superiotool -deV

If you can recover please also post the output of a write or erase
operation (using the latest flashrom from svn).


Thanks, Uwe.
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