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

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:40:54 -0600
Donovan Lavinder <drmario2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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....
> 

a verbose one (with -V or even -VVV) please
i am not familiar with the it87xx code, but i would say it hangs in the
while loop at the end of it8716f_spi_send_command. it would be easy to
add a timeout there, but the question is why it does hang there (now).

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner