[flashrom] Test report for multiple SPI flash chips on serprog with UNTESTED status
Chi Zhang
zhangchi866 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 12:10:51 CEST 2013
在 2013年4月20日 星期六 11:36:53,Stefan Tauner 写道:
>
> Thanks for testing. This is quite odd: we do the right thing IMHO.
> The relevant code is in spi25_statusreg.c
> spi_disable_blockprotect_at25df() calls
> spi_disable_blockprotect_generic(flash, 0x0C, 1 << 7, 1 << 4)
> In the beginning the status register is 0x1C, i.e. the status register
> is not locked, the hardware protection pin is not asserted, only the
> write protection bits are set.
> spi_disable_blockprotect_generic() correctly detects that and tries to
> set the protection bits to 0 by trying to write 0x10 (not touching the
> r/o WP pin bit), but that apparently has no effect.
>
> Interestingly here the initial contents of the status register are what
> we would expect them to be after unlocking(!).
> Maybe the chip reacts too slow? Do you have another explanation for
> that behavior?
>
> The patch below adds a delay of five seconds after trying to write to
> the status register for unlocking.
>
Will test later on Monday. Now I am at home and do not have access to the
hardware.
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