[flashrom] Intel SandyBridge serie 6 chipsets support

[Idwer Vollering]

2011/5/30  <Mohammed-Amine.Rebai at bull.net>:
> Dear Mr Vollering,
>
> I am sorry for the language mixing, I was not aware that other people than
> my replier ( Stefan Tauner ) would receive my answer.

That is the difference between replying and replying to all recipients ;)

> Due to his informal answer ( smiles etc ) I tried to answer back the same way.
>
> As a Bios engineer, as far as I know, we only use your software to flash the
> Bios in some cases where we are under Linux. Our usual way to flash our
> machines is a Bios Integrated utility under EFI Shell.
>
> Thanks again for your help and for the nice job you are doing.

Thanks. The build you're offering (flashrom-bin-x86_64-20081003.tar)
looks outdated though, it is from 2008 and targets 64-bit hardware
only. Is that on purpose, e.g. you exclusively sell 64-bit hardware?

>
> Best Regards
> Amine Rebai
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> De :        Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com>
> A :        Mohammed-Amine.Rebai at bull.net
> Cc :        flashrom at flashrom.org
> Date :        30/05/2011 15:15
> Objet :        Re: [flashrom] Intel SandyBridge serie 6 chipsets support
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> 2011/5/30  <Mohammed-Amine.Rebai at bull.net>:
>> Hallo Stefan,
>>
>> Wir könnten eigentlich deutsch sprechen ;).
>>
>> Ja, unsere Kunden benützen auch flashrom. Wir haben usere EFI shell
>> flashing
>> tool, aber die Kunden benützen das Linux Shell am liebsten, besonders wenn
>> du viele Clusters/Servers flashen muss.
>>
>> Stimmt, das SPI interface in « Intel Chipset Serie 6 » ist fast wie die
>> vorausgegangen. Es gibt ME protection und special « unlocking sequence »
>> mit
>> special opcodes.
>>
>> Aber mein Problem ist vor diesen Sachen. « chipset_flash_enable » findet
>> nicht das PCH:
>>         « This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
>>  WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail. »
>>
>> und das PCH device_id (Vendor ID:0x8086, Device ID:0x244e ) existiert
>> nicht
>> in das «chipset_enables » stuct. ( mein PCH heisst Patsburg oder C200
>> chipset ).
>>
>> Wenn ich « enable_flash_ich10 » Funktion nötige, es funkioniert auch
>> nicht.
>>         Maximum FWH chip size: 0x0 bytes        BIOS Lock Enable:
>> disabled,
>> BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x0        tried to set 0xdc to
>> 0x1 on ICH10 failed (WARNING ONLY)        Root Complex Register Block
>> address = 0x0        Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000
>>      /dev/mem mmap failed: Resource temporarily unavailableIch werde
>> vielleicht eine neue funktion schreiben ;).
>> Vielen Dank.
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>> Amine Rebai
>
> It is not very "freundlich" (friendly) to write a reply in an other
> language than English, given the fact that your first message was
> written in English.
>
> Also, the download named flashrom-bin-x86_64-20081003.tar [1] is
> behind a 'paywall' / customer login. There is no trace of "flashrom is
> GPL software" at that website, where can anyone download, if there are
> any, your patches?
>
> Thanks,
> Idwer
>
> [1]
> http://support.bull.com/ols/product/platforms/hw-extremcomp/bullx-R/dl/toolf/tool
>
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>> De :        Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>
>> A :        Mohammed-Amine.Rebai at bull.net
>> Cc :        flashrom at flashrom.org
>> Date :        27/05/2011 20:02
>> Objet :        Re: [flashrom] Intel SandyBridge serie 6 chipsets support
>> ________________________________
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>> On Fri, 27 May 2011 14:58:57 +0200
>> Mohammed-Amine.Rebai at bull.net wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Flahsrom representant,
>> hello!
>>
>>> I am a Bios engineer at BULL, a major european server and supercomputer
>>> company «www.bull.com » .
>>>
>>> First of all, I would like to thank you for the great job you are doing,
>>> we use your utility a lot.
>> nice to hear that, thank you. is it offered to your customers too?
>>
>>> I would like to know if you are planning to support the Bios SPI flash
>>> flashing on the Intel SandyBridge architecture, especially the  Intel 6
>>> series chipset/C200/Patsburg platform controller hub?
>>
>> the spi interface of the 6 series chipset is very similar to the
>> previous ones and as long as there is no locking in place (i am talking
>> about PR0-PR4 and related "security" stuff) it may already work, have
>> you tried it?
>>
>> in case of locking in place (that might be a requirement in nowadays
>> chipsets due to the requirement of using the ME) flashrom would not
>> work yet. i am working on this problem within the scope of my google
>> summer of code project which should be completed by the end of summer.
>> dont hold your breath though please ;)
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
>>
>>
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