[flashrom] Successfull READ and WRITE on W25X64

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Jan 11 20:32:30 CET 2016


On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:30:20 +0100
Manuel Dejonghe <manuel.dejonghe at primekey.de> wrote:

> On 09.01.16 17:12, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 02:56:52 +0100
> > Manuel Dejonghe <manuel.dejonghe at primekey.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> I just wanted to report success (as the tool requests) for reading and
> >> writing to a winbond W25X64VFIG during installation of libreboot on my
> >> lenovo thinkpad x200.
> >>
> >> The programmer I used was a RasPi 2 linux_spi wired directly with
> >> soldered wires.
> >
> > Hello Manuel,
> >
> > thanks for your report!
> > I have marked the flash chip as fully tested and will commit that later
> > together with other small changes. However, your write log does
> > actually not proof anything because the data in the chip was already
> > equal to the image file as can be seen by the message at the end.
> > Please consider that for any further logs you send, thanks.
> >
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> thank you for the feedback.
> Of course, I should have thought about that, that was stupid of me, 
> sorry. Next time that I'll open the device (for reflashing), I'll redo 
> the log so that you will have proper proof.
> The way this happened this time was "okay, let's first see if it works, 
> then I'll redo the operation with a logfile so that I can send them 
> something.

That's probably the reason for 99% of these reports (you are not
alone ;)
No need to resend though. The chip was expected to just work.

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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