[flashrom] curious about nicrealtek

[Uwe Hermann]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:21:33PM -0700, Kyle Kienapfel wrote:
> Is probing the flash/eeprom something thats not done yet for rtl8139's?
> 
> root at grayskull:~# flashrom -p nicrealtek
> flashrom v0.9.2-r1015 on Linux 2.6.17 (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0,
> GCC 4.4.3, little endian
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
> 
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found "Realtek RTL8139/8139C/8139C+" (10ec:8139, BDF 02:0a.0).
> No EEPROM/flash device found.
> Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically.
> 
> I ran an strace on flashrom and just before it says theres no flash
> device it reads /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:02\:0a.0/config is this the
> contents of the eeprom where the bootrom size is configured?
> 
> forcing a read works
> flashrom -p nicrealtek -f -r file -c SST29EE010

Can you post the output of "flashrom -p nicrealtek -VVVV" please?

Have you checked that the file you read via forcing really contains
data that makes sense (i.e. it's not just all-0xff or all-0x00)?


Uwe.
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