[flashrom] 2CHIPSET: Alix 6F2 (flashrom v0.9.3-r1205)

[Philip Prindeville]

On 12/29/11 3:21 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Philip,
> 
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.12.2011, 19:11 -0700 schrieb Philip Prindeville:
>> # flashrom
>> flashrom v0.9.3-r1205 on Linux 2.6.39.4 (i586), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.4 20110808 (prerelease), little endian
> 
> […]
> 
> could you test if that error shows also up with v0.9.4 or the latest
> code from the SVN repository [1]?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul

I tried 0.9.4 but it didn't seem to make a difference.

I have the LPC board connected to my Alix 6f2 so that I can at least boot from it, but I'm wondering if that might be interfering with Flash detection.


# /tmp/flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w /tmp/coreboot.rom
flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.39.4 (i586), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.4 20110808 (prerelease), little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
========================================================================
WARNING! You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. We could
not detect this for sure because your vendor has not setup the SMBIOS
tables correctly. You can enforce execution by adding
'-p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick' to the command line, but
please read the following warning if you are not sure.

Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we
recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller
(EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.
See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.

If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
and write may brick your laptop.
Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
failure and sudden poweroff.
You have been warned.
========================================================================
Proceeding anyway because user specified laptop=force_I_want_a_brick
Found chipset "AMD CS5536". Enabling flash write... OK.
WARNING: unexpected second chipset match: "AMD CS5536"
ignoring, please report lspci and board URL to flashrom at flashrom.org
with 'CHIPSET: your board name' in the subject line.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Found AMIC flash chip "A49LF040A" (512 kB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff80000.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: WRITE
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version,
please email a report to flashrom at flashrom.org if any of the above operations
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom
output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -Vr,
-Vw, -VE), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
Please mention your board in the subject line. Thanks for your help!
Note: If the following flash access fails, try -m <vendor>:<mainboard>.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x03, failed byte count from 0x0000000
0-0x0000ffff: 0x12
ERASE FAILED!
Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x03, failed byte count fro
m 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0xf5d1
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed.
Good. It seems nothing was changed.
Writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything.
This means we have to add special support for your board, programmer or flash chip.
Please report this on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
mail flashrom at flashrom.org!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You may now reboot or simply leave the machine running.
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I also tried flashrom -m "PC Engines:Alix.2c2" -w /tmp/coreboot.rom but that didn't work either.


# /tmp/flashrom -m "PC Engines:Alix.2c2" -w /tmp/coreboot.rom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick
flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.39.4 (i586), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.4 20110808 (prerelease), little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
========================================================================
WARNING! You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. We could
not detect this for sure because your vendor has not setup the SMBIOS
tables correctly. You can enforce execution by adding
'-p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick' to the command line, but
please read the following warning if you are not sure.

Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we
recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller
(EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.
See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.

If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
and write may brick your laptop.
Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
failure and sudden poweroff.
You have been warned.
========================================================================
Proceeding anyway because user specified laptop=force_I_want_a_brick
Found chipset "AMD CS5536". Enabling flash write... OK.
WARNING: unexpected second chipset match: "AMD CS5536"
ignoring, please report lspci and board URL to flashrom at flashrom.org
with 'CHIPSET: your board name' in the subject line.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.

Unknown vendor:board from -m option: PC Engines:Alix.2c2

No EEPROM/flash device found.
Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically.
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Not sure why the -m argument didn't work, given that I get:

# /tmp/flashrom -L | grep -i alix
PC Engines               Alix.1c                     OK
PC Engines               Alix.2c2                    OK
PC Engines               Alix.2c3                    OK
PC Engines               Alix.3c3                    OK
PC Engines               Alix.3d3                    OK
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