[flashrom] Fwd: Flashrom report for Intel BOXDP45SG: Intel provided image is 3x size of Flash ROM!

[Anders Juel Jensen]

On Monday 18 January 2010 05:17:42 Thode, Lucas wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Thode, Lucas <lthode at unomaha.edu>
> Date: 2010/1/17
> Subject: Flashrom report for Intel BOXDP45SG: Intel provided image is 3x
> size of Flash ROM!
> To: flashrom at flashrom.org
> 
> 
> Link to vendor image (.BIO file):
> http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror
> .intel.com/18047/eng/SG0121.BIO&agr=&ProductID=&DwnldId=18047&strOSs=&OSFul
> lName=&lang=eng
> 
> -- (HTT-Bird at Freenode)
> 

I don't know if it is helpfull, but here is Intel's DOS based iFlash tool and 
the same .BIO file in one zip file (2.6MB): 
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18047/eng/SGP4510H.86A.0121.BI.ZIP

The .BIO file consists mostly of ffff's and 0000's:
xxd SG0121.BIO | cut -d " " -f 1-9 | grep "ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff" | wc -l
returns 582098

xxd SG0121.BIO | cut -d " " -f 1-9 | grep "0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000" 
| wc -l
returns 3411

Manual inspection showed that they come in huge blocks.

Hope you can use this for something.

/Anders