[flashrom] FLASHROM fails on my AM1 Kabinis with

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:55:32 +0200
Branko Badrljica <brankob at s5tehnika.net> wrote:

> I'm in dire need te reflash a couple of BIOS chips.
> 
> 
> Unfotunately, all my boards which I used to use for this purpose are 
> rebellign against me.
> 
> 
> I have a couple of Kabinis ( Athlon 5370) on cheap AM1 boards and have 
> noticed that "flashrom -p internal" fails on each one with
> 
> "Found chipset AMD FCH"
> 
> "Enabling flash write... ERROR: State of SpiAccesMacRomEn or 
> SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access"
> 
> At first, I thot that I might have miscompiled something in the kernel 
> or that flashrom doesn't jive with my Hardened Gentoo or something like 
> that. So I used Kali Linux and burned it toUSB stick ( it has flasrom 
> packaged).
> 
> 
> With the exactly the same end result.
> 
> I've tried git version and versions 0.98 and 0.99. Older one ( 0.96 ?) 
> compained that it doesn't know Kabini's chipset...
> 
> THis HW used to work with flashrom. What changed ?

Hi,

possibly a firmware update that set one of the two bits mentioned by
flashrom's output. Can you please post a complete verbose log file (e.g.
by adding "-o logfile.txt" to the command line)?

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner