[flashrom] Update of Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP motherboard firmware switch

[Donovan Lavinder]

The flashrom is the only program that froze when looking for the flash chip.
I have tried cold reboot - same thing happened. That here, was a
head-scratcher since it is not even supposed to happen. Probably it could be
because the firmware unmounted itself (shouldn't happen). The whole OS ran
fine otherwise (I could close the frozen flashrom program with ease). I am
wondering how could SuperIO refuse the handshake between the flashrom - I
left it alone for a while, no change in the behavior (as far as the verbose
terminal emulator was concerned).

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Stefan Tauner <
stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:27:02 -0600
> Donovan Lavinder <drmario2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's strange. I have tried rewriting the firmware so I COULD provide
> you
> > the text file... It froze after couple complaints of 4-byte RDID not
> found
> > (it just ignored that before), and I tried just "flashrom", same thing.
> Now
> > that's a can of worm. It was 100% successful - verified and signed. Now I
> am
> > somewhat confused. I may have to wait for a while (thankfully I still
> have a
> > Windows laptop so I could write up the report on progresses of the
> firmware
> > ROM.)
>
> the 4 byte RDID warnings should not matter. the chip you have does not
> need it. it is just printed for other chips that are probed for by
> flashrom. you can use the -c <chipname> parameter to probe for the
> correct chip only. regarding the lockup i can't say much without a log,
> but that it should not happen. :) does it reliably happen while probing
> for the same chip or is it (seemingly) random? could you also please
> define "froze" precisely? is it flashrom alone or the whole OS etc?
>
> --
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
>



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