[flashrom] External programmer update

Michael Karcher flashrom at mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de
Sat Jun 19 23:45:31 CEST 2010


Am Samstag, den 19.06.2010, 14:04 -0700 schrieb Sean Nelson:
> > The summary:
> > Flashrom (from svn) would detect the other chips using addresses 
> > 0x5555, 0x2AAA, 0x5555
> > Flashrom (from svn) would try to detect the Am29F040 using addresses 
> > 0x0555, 0x02AA, 0x0555 - which is not according to the datasheet.
> The Problem is the Am29F040B uses 0x2AA variant, but the Am29F040 uses 
> 0x2AAA. What AMD/Spansion did was change the command addresses without 
Do we have a user with a Am29F040B that works with the 2AA variant? In
that case have him/her test with the 2AAA variant. It is quite likely
that the 2AAA variant works on all chips (the higher bits being ignored)
by the 2AA chip.

Regards,
  Michael Karcher





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