[flashrom] FLASHROM fails on my AM1 Kabinis with

[Mike Banon]

By the way: please check if your AM1 boards support the coreboot open
source BIOS
(sister project of flashrom), that could significantly increase the
value of your AM1 boards.
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 4:21 PM Branko Badrljica <brankob at s5tehnika.net> wrote:
>
> 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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