[flashrom] Flashing M/B Bios (Asus P5LD2-VM) goes wrong

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:35:59 +0200
Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/4/16 Emil Sirbu <emil at servicii.info.ro>:
> > On 04/16/2011 06:37 AM, Emil Sirbu wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> I have an ASUS P5LD2-VM, and  I try to update bios, first with flashrom
> >> v0.9.2-r1028 ( http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=489 )
> >> then with 0.9.3 ( http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=490 also, the ROM
> >> is at http://paste.flashrom.org/uploads/491.bin )
> >> but:
> >>
> >> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... Looking at blockwise erase
> >> function 0... trying... 0x000000-0x000fff, 0x001000-0x001fff,
> >> 0x002000-0x002fff, 0x003000-0xff, 0x004000-0x004fff, 0x005000-0x005fff,
> >> ERASE FAILED at 0x00005760! Expected=0xff, Read=0x50, failed byte count from
> >> 0x00005000-0x00005fff: 0x87a
> >> ERASE FAILED!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I rebooted and BIOS was ok (I flashing with asus afudos utility).
> > Now, I will replace moterhboard  with the new one but, I collect some
> > information from system, maybe helps you to improve flashrom.
> >
> > I ran all commands from http://www.flashrom.org/Board_Testing_HOWTO
> >
> > flashrom -V (flashrom.log)
> > lspci -nnvvxxx (lspci.log)
> > superiotool -deV (superiotool.log)
> >
> > also, I ran:
> >
> > biosdecode (biosdecode.log)
> > hwinfo --bios (hwinfo-bios.log)
> > dmidecode --type bios (dmidecode-bios.log)
> > lshw (lshw.log)
> >
> > All results are in attached files.
> >
> > I ran:
> > flashrom 0.9.2 (flashrom-w.log),
> > 0.9.3 (flashrom-093.log) and
> > svn version (flashrom-svn.log, this give me a segmentation fault)
> >
> >
> > Also, I attached original-1303.rom wich is original bios (flashrom -r) and
> > new bios P5LD2-VM-1401.rom (wich give me error when try to write).
> 
> It looks like the PCI IDs in the patch attached to this message can be
> used for your board too:
> http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2010-October/005106.html
> 
> Can you try the attached patch ?
> Apply to svn code, r1288, with "patch -p0 <
> /path/to/board_enable_asus_p5ld2-vm.diff", recompile and try writing
> with the patched binary: "./flashrom -w /path/to/P5LD2-VM-1401.ROM".
> After you have done that, please report back here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com>

I have refined/corrected the patch according to Joshua's recommendations
and committed it in r1596, thanks.
-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner