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

[Donovan Lavinder]

> here's the log:

;root at sysresccd /root % flashrom
;flashrom v0.9.3-r1205 on Linux 2.6.38-std230-i586 (i686), built with libpci
3.1.
;7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
;flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
;
;
;Calibrating delay loop... OK.
;coreboot table found at 0x6fffe000.
;Found ITE Super I/O, ID 0x8718.
;Found Chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
;This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;4 byte RDID not supported on this SPI controller
;

After that, that's it....

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Donovan Lavinder <drmario2007 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Mamma-mia, there's Koopa troopa in Mushroom Kingdom!"
>



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