[flashrom] EN25Q128 (Thomson TG582n router) flash problem?

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:31:39 +0000
Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/03/2016 16:27, "Stefan Tauner" <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:08:54 +0000
> > Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 12/03/2016 15:46, "Stefan Tauner" <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Ah, OK. In that case I don't know why it didn't finish writing then, unless
> >> my temporary connections between RasPi and flash moved a little bit or just
> >> aren't tight enough for a good signal. Cable length maybe - signal path is
> >> RasPi -> 40pin IDE cable -> hookup wires (15cm) soldered to the pads on the
> >> chip. Now that I've got more female-female jumper wires I can go direct to
> >> the Pi to shorten the distance drastically.
> > 
> > That makes a huge difference for the quality of the signals :)
> 
> Certainly does - it worked this time with a much shorter signal path! Do you
> still want a verbose dump of the writing?

Yes, please. I'll just want to make sure that we set the status of the
chip correctly and you did not miss anything.

> Still stumped on the bootloader though, even a generic tg582n won't boot.
> Odd.

Probably not flashrom's fault... flashrom does not care about the
content of the files you feed it. I fear I can't help with the
tg582n/bootloader problem itself, sorry.

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner