[flashrom] FAILED: SST SST39SF040 - Verify Failed

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Jan 13 00:18:01 CET 2011


Hi Roger,

thanks for your report.


Auf 12.01.2011 07:39, Roger schrieb:
> localhost2 bios # flashrom -w /home/roger/src/coreboot-tyan_s1832dl/coreboot/build/coreboot.rom
> flashrom v0.9.3-r1205 on Linux 2.6.37-gentoo (i686), built with libpci 3.1.4, GCC 4.4.4, little endian
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel PIIX4/4E/4M", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: Parallel.
> Found chip "SST SST39SF040" (512 KB, Parallel) at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Note: If the following flash access fails, try -m <vendor>:<mainboard>.
> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... SUCCESS.
>   

Erase verification apparently worked.


> Programming page: DONE!ss: 0x0007f000
> COMPLETE.
>   

Programming didn't return any immediate problems either.


> Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x0003fc9e! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4f, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x231f7
>   

Now it explodes. This is very strange.


> DIGI-KEY Part No. SST39SF040-70-4C-PHE
> IC FLASH MPF 4MBIT (512KBYTES) 70NS 32DIP
>   

That should have worked. Can you try to update to the very latest
flashrom from svn and write the old image back? I hope that survives the
verify.
Please also send a log of the write attempt with latest flashrom from
svn. Maybe it has some useful info.


> This is flashing using a Tyan S1832DL board
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
> ...
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
>
> (... am I getting this right, flashrom uses the ISA bridge to write to flash part?)
>   

Correct. On that board, the flash chip is attached to the ISA bridge.
Later boards have a LPC bridge to which the flash chip is attached.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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