[flashrom] Unable to flash Kabini with NetBSD

Justin Hibbits jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu
Sat Nov 15 04:34:45 CET 2014


On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 02:41:22 +0100
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> 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)?
> 

Yeah, I tried twice, before and after flashing the new image, and both
reads are identical.  I could chock it up to a potentially bad read if
the files differed from the flashed rom on a block boundary, but they
differ at 192k+89 bytes, so I'm pretty sure it's just not writing the
image.

- Justin




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