[flashrom] MX25L1605DM2I-12G with Buspirate

Idwer Vollering vidwer at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 00:01:55 CET 2012


2012/11/29 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:29:28 +0100
> "Daniel ." <phl3ckz at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe just a last question. Is it possible to flash a .wph BIOS-file with
>> flashrom? Furthermore I have read something about that the BIOS-file has to
>> be the same size like the chip. This is not the case for me. Can someone
>> help?
>
> flashrom does not care about the contents of the files you fed it at
> all, hence they must be prepared first. usually this is done by cutting
> out headers or footers. in the case of wph it is likely that you can
> cut everything away that is larger than your flash chip AFAIK.

If you took the chip from a laptop, with a soldering iron, removing
the trailer with 'dd' will likely work.
To split off the first megabyte, run: dd if=<romfile>
of=<trimmed_file>.bin bs=1024k count=1
See http://flashrom.org/Laptop_enable

> --
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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