[flashrom] Foxconn NT-510: flashrom doesn't find anything

[Stefan Tauner]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:59:41 -0800
Daniel Lenski <dlenski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a Flashrom NT-510 nettop (Intel Atom D510, ICH7/NM10 chipset).
> Flashrom doesn't find any chip while probing. Complete output of
> sensors-detect and flashrom -V here:
> http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1966
> 
> When running sensors-detect to find thermal/fan/etc., it appears to find an
> EEPROM chip while probing I2C/SMBus adapters, however I think this is just
> an EEPROM that gives information about the RAM module, rather than a
> BIOS/firmware Flash chip:
> 
> SMBus I801 adapter at 0400 (i2c-6)
> Probing for `SPD EEPROM'...                                 Yes
>     (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip)
> 
> 
> Does anyone else have experience with this system and might know how to
> probe and read the BIOS EEPROM?
> 

It could be hidden behind another chip. Can you please send us the
output of 'superiotool -deV'? Ah, sensors-detect even reports the
suspect, an ITE 8502. Support for this is disabled currently due to
safety reasons. Carl-Daniel, can you please take a look at this, you
know that code way better than me.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner