[flashrom] rayer_spi

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Dec 8 02:33:28 CET 2014


On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:29:55 +0330
Arman Khodabande <amal555 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> As I checked Supported hardware on the Flashrom website the chip
> EN25F32 has unknown status. I wanted to inform you that successfully
> tested the Read and Write operations of this chip on a Rayer_spi
> programmer. The EN25F32 chip acts as the Bios in the Dell XPS L502
> Laptops. Here's the log with (-V):
> 
> […]
> 
> Perhaps the verification process failed which maybe because of
> programmer disconnection or fault. It may have been succeeded. So I'm
> unsure.
> 
> Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00008134! Expected=0xed,
> Read=0xef, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x003fffff: 0xbe54
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail flashrom at flashrom.org with the subject "FAILED: "!
> 
> I verified the chip with another program called SPIPGM and it showed
> no errors. so the READ and WRITE process was fine by flashrom.

Hello Arman,

thanks for your report! I'll pretend the verification errors never
happened, because the LPT-based programmers are usually to blame and
not flashrom itself. Thus I have marked the flash chip as fully tested
and will commit that later together with other small changes.

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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