[flashrom] About flashing mx25l4005 on Itona TC2331

[Idwer Vollering]

2013/5/15 Bin X <z2333 at outlook.com>:
> Thanks for the reply. I will do some homework on the coreboot.
>
> However I think my chanllenge here is to find a program (I don't have
> hardware programmer) to flash the chip. I run
> flashrom.exe -p internal -c MX25L4005(A/C) -VVV
>
> and here is what I got
> flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1671 on MS-DOS 7 (i686)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>
> flashrom was built with libpci 3.1.5, GCC 4.4.4, little endian
> Command line (5 args): c:/bios/flashrom.exe -p internal -c MX25L4005(A/C)
> -VVV
> Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 110000 usecs, 298M loops
> per second, delay more than 10% too short (got 84% of expected delay),
> recalculating... 347M loops per second, 10 myus = 0 us, 100 myus = 0 us,
> 1000 myus = 0 us, 10000 myus = 0 us, 440000 myus = 440000 us, OK.
> Initializing internal programmer
> No coreboot table found.
> DMI string system-manufacturer: ""
> DMI string system-product-name: ""
> DMI string system-version: ""
> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: ""
> DMI string baseboard-product-name: ""
> DMI string baseboard-version: ""
> DMI string chassis-type: ""
> DMI chassis-type is not specific enough.
> Found ITE Super I/O, ID 0x8712 on port 0x2e
> Bad Command or file name
> Bad Command or file name
> Bad Command or file name
> Bad Command or file name
> Bad Command or file name
> Bad Command or file name
>
> I am not sure which part is wrong. Is it because I don't have a full dos
> enviroment?

You seem to be missing dmidecode.exe, get it from
http://assembler.cz/flashrom/dmidecode.exe

The alternative is to run flashrom from any live-CD/USB Linux
distribution. Ubuntu Quantal/Raring and Debian testing/unstable can
install flashrom-0.9.6.1

>
> Thanks,
>
>> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 22:05:06 +0200
>> From: vidwer at gmail.com
>> To: z2333 at outlook.com
>> CC: flashrom at flashrom.org; coreboot at coreboot.org
>> Subject: Re: [flashrom] About flashing mx25l4005 on Itona TC2331
>
>>
>> 2013/5/14 Bin X <z2333 at outlook.com>:
>> > I apologize if it does not make sense at all since this is my first
>> > attempt
>> > to flash a bios with unmatched bios ID.
>> >
>> > I was trying to flash bios on a Itona TC2331 to get rid of the
>> > limitation
>> > they put on of any IDE HDD and USB HDD can’t be larger than 64mb.
>>
>> coreboot can do that, but you have to spend 'some' time on adding
>> support for your particular mainboard.
>>
>> See http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3215#sp
>> ("Chipset VIA CN700 chipset with VIA VT8237R Plus") and
>> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices
>>
>> >
>> > The current bios rom, flash program and documentation can be found here:
>> >
>> > ftp://ftpguest:letmein@ftp.vxl.net/../Utilities/BIOS/TC23YY/
>> >
>> > Since I don’t have any working rom so I am hoping to use the file from
>> > this
>> > board
>> >
>> > http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3215#dl
>> >
>> > Because they are from the same vendor and used the same chipset. I
>> > understand it may not work at all but decide to take the risk.
>> >
>> > However, I can’t find any program to flash the bios that can ignore the
>> > bios
>> > ID. The vendor provided one can flash the bios but does not have the
>> > option
>> > to ignore the unmatched bios ID. Flashrom failed at probing the chipset.
>> >
>> > The building Q-Flash tells that it is MX25L4005 which should be
>> > supported by
>> > Flashrom. I also tried “internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop” and still
>> > no
>> > success.
>>
>> It's very good that you found that programmer parameter. However, the
>> Gigabyte product picture shows that this (non-VXL) board uses LPC
>> flash instead of SPI.
>>
>> What we're interested in is what flashrom's output looks like when
>> there is - your words - no success. Does its output end with many
>> times "<hexadecimal value>:S"?
>>
>> >
>> > So I am not sure what else I should try to make Flashrom work.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >
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