[flashrom] Unable to flash Kabini with NetBSD

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Nov 15 02:41:22 CET 2014


On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:30:34 -0800
Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 02:06:50 +0100
> Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:45:39 -0800
> > Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I just checked out the trunk from svn, since it supports the Kabini
> > > SPI bus, but I'm unable to flash the BIOS.  I see the following
> > > message when I run it as:
> > > 
> > > 'flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w myimage.bin'
> > > 
> > > "Warning: Chip content is identical to the requested image."
> > 
> > Well... above is pretty much everything to say unless you know your
> > image differs from the chip contents. Why do you think there is
> > anything wrong?
> > 
> 
> Reading the contents back, I get a different binary than what I flash
> in, about 192k into the image.

Hm... the code that produces the warning above does almost the same as
a manual read and compare... does the read work reliably (e.g. do files
read always have the same md5sum)?

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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