[flashrom] FYI: X58A-UD3R - read OK, write declined

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Aleksey,

thanks for your report.
I noticed that you come from a @nexenta address. Did you test flashrom
under OpenSolaris and Nexenta as well? It should compile and work, but
we didn't get any recent test reports.

On 30.11.2010 01:59, Aleksey A. Fakeyev wrote:
> Reading ok, see log below, 
> but can't write because (I guess) DUAL-BIOS technology is blame it
> - program detected 2M flash but 1M of this used to fallback and 
> firmware binary has size 1M...
>   

Yes, flashrom refuses to write images which have a size != the flash
chip size. We are currently discussing how an image size mismatch should
be handled. That decision is really difficult because a top alignment
would work on most x86, but may explode badly on laptops with separate
EC flash.

It would be nice if you could test write with a full 2 MB image.

> LOG:
>
> root at stalker BIOS # flashrom -Vr ./x58a-ud3r.bin
> flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r1_aSe (x86_64), built with
> libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.1
> DMI string system-manufacturer: "Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd."
> DMI string system-product-name: "X58A-UD3R"
> DMI string system-version: " "
> Found chipset "Intel ICH10R", enabling flash write... OK.
> Probing for Macronix MX25L1605, 2048 KB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1
> 0xc2, id2 0x2015
> Chip status register is 00
> Chip status register: Status Register Write Disable (SRWD) is not set
> Chip status register: Bit 6 is not set
> Chip status register: Bit 5 / Block Protect 3 (BP3) is not set
> Chip status register: Bit 4 / Block Protect 2 (BP2) is not set
> Chip status register: Bit 3 / Block Protect 1 (BP1) is not set
> Chip status register: Bit 2 / Block Protect 0 (BP0) is not set
> Chip status register: Write Enable Latch (WEL) is not set
> Chip status register: Write In Progress (WIP/BUSY) is not set
> Found chip "Macronix MX25L1605" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address
> 0xffe00000.
> ===
> This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: ERASE
> ===
> Reading flash... done.
>   

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

P.S. You sent two almost identical mails. The first mail has been
discarded because the contents were almost identical.

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