[flashrom] Help: unable to upgrade bios

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 22:51:42 +0530
Raghuramchary Jallipalli <Raghuramchary.Jallipalli at lntinfotech.com>
wrote:

> Do you have any plans to support the laptops with QM67 chipset and AT25DF321A, AT25DF641A flashchips, to upgrade the bios gracefully? If yes, can you please give us the timeline.

Hello Raghu!

the AT25DF321A is already supported, but untested (usually SPI chips
just work). The AT25DF641A is almost identical to the AT25DF641 and
will (for now) be detected and used as such. The latter is supported,
but as well untested. I dont see a problem regarding those chips. In
the event that a problem is encountered we can probably fix it quite
fast.

The other part of the question is not that easily answered. First of
all laptops have additional chips (embedded controllers) involved in
accessing the flash device which we dont support in general at the
moment. This is a long term goal without a timeline (you could depend
on).

The chipset itself is supported. It just have some features that - if
enabled - prohibit accessing some portions of the flash. There is some
work done on working around this, but do not expect this to arrive soon
please.

I could tell you at least a bit more, if you could post a verbose
output of running flashrom (including the laptop-enabling parameter of
course).

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner