[flashrom] Supermicro X9SRH-7F/7TF

Eric Donaldson eric at zadarastorage.com
Sat Mar 12 01:38:11 CET 2016


Stefan,

Ahh thank you, that makes sense. The nicintel_spi was working when I
pointed it at an actual intel PCI card, but I got pulled away before I
could further experiment between the various commands with the various PCI
address targets.

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Stefan Tauner <
stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:25:16 -0800
> Eric Donaldson <eric at zadarastorage.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry about that, thought I had included the command I was running. I was
> > just running the probe on it to figure out if I was going to be able to
> > read and write to flash, then it said to run it verbosely and submit it.
> > `flashrom -p internal:pci=01:00.0`
>
> I think you are confusing the internal programmer with nicintel_spi
> (etc). The internal programmer is actually used to access the flash
> chip of the mainboard containing the firmware of the board and possibly
> its on-board peripherals. Thus it *might* contain the PXE firmware as
> well but there is no easy way to prepare images for that.
>
> However, from what you wrote so far I think you want to use
> nicintel_spi and friends to access the boot flash of dedicated NICs.
> For them the pci parameter makes way more sense as well :)
>
> --
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
>
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