[flashrom] [PATCH] Refine messages related to erase/write recovery.

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Sat May 10 11:26:11 CEST 2014


On Wed,  7 Aug 2013 17:07:47 +0200
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> We are more verbose inside erase_and_write_flash() although it does not
> matter as much as here - at the end of the process.
> 
> New output for the non-fatal (i.e. read-protected + successful read) case:
> 
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Erasing and writing flash chip... spi_block_erase_d8 failed during command execution at address 0x8000
> Reading current flash chip contents... done. spi_chip_erase_c7 failed during command execution
> FAILED!
> Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
> Reading current flash chip contents... done.
> Good. Writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything.
> Please check the connections (especially those to write protection pins) between
> the programmer and the flash chip. If you think the error is caused by flashrom
> please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail flashrom at flashrom.org, thanks!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>

Slightly refined,
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
and committed in r1790.

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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