[flashrom] FLASHROM fails on my AM1 Kabinis with

[Branko Badrljica]

Here it is.


Stefan Tauner je 5. 10. 2018 ob 15:06 napisal:
> 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)?
>

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flashrom p1.0-123-g1a7fb6e on Linux 4.18.12-gentoo (x86_64)
flashrom was built with libpci 3.5.6, GCC 8.2.0, little endian
Command line (4 args): flashrom -p internal -o /flashrom_logfile.txt
Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
Initializing internal programmer
/sys/class/mtd/mtd0 does not exist
No coreboot table found.
Using Internal DMI decoder.
DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"
DMI string system-manufacturer: "ASUS"
DMI string system-product-name: "All Series"
DMI string system-version: "System Version"
DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC."
DMI string baseboard-product-name: "AM1M-A"
DMI string baseboard-version: "Rev X.0x"
Found ITE Super I/O, ID 0x8623 on port 0x2e
Found chipset "AMD FCH" with PCI ID 1022:780e.
Enabling flash write... SPI base address is at 0xfec10000
Trying to determine the generation of the SPI interface... Yangtze detected.
SpiRomEnable=1, RouteTpm2Sp=0, PrefetchEnSPIFromIMC=0, PrefetchEnSPIFromHost=1
(0x6f4c2105) SpiArbEnable=1, IllegalAccess=0, SpiAccessMacRomEn=1, SpiHostAccessRomEn=0, ArbWaitCount=7, SpiBusy=0
ERROR: State of SpiAccessMacRomEn or SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access.
ROM strap override is not active
PROBLEMS, continuing anyway
Super I/O ID 0x8623 is not on the list of flash-capable controllers.
The following protocols are supported: LPC, FWH.
Probing for AMIC A49LF040A, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Atmel AT49LH002, 256 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Atmel AT49LH00B4, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Atmel AT49LH004, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Intel 82802AB, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Intel 82802AC, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for PMC Pm49FL002, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for PMC Pm49FL004, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Sharp LHF00L04, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF002A/B, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF003A/B, 384 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF004A/B, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF004C, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF008A, 1024 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF008C, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF016C, 2048 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF020, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF020A, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF040, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF040B, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF080A, 1024 kB: Chip lacks correct probe timing information, using default 10ms/40us. probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for SST SST49LF160C, 2048 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FLW040A, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FLW040B, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FLW080A, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FLW080B, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FW002, 256 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FW016, 2048 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FW040, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50FW080, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50LPW080, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for ST M50LPW116, 2048 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V040A, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V040B, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V040C, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V040FA, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V040FB, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V040FC, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V080A, 1024 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W49V002A, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W49V002FA, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V080FA, 1024 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
Probing for Winbond W39V080FA (dual mode), 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content
No EEPROM/flash device found.
Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically.