Bios flashing continued

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 13:36, ron minnich wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2003, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> 
> look in flash.h. id1 is the vendor, and i2 is the part. 
> 37 is 25 hex, which is an unknown vendor to me. 

I removed the current flash chip that was in there and replaced it with
one of the ones I bought. Ran ./flash_rom again and got...
Try 2097152
timeusec is 44994
Try 20971520
timeusec is 449133
Try 209715200
timeusec is 4491595
one us is 466 count
Trying Am29F040B, 512 KB
probe_29f040bid1 255, id2 255
Trying At29C040A, 512 KB
probe_jedecid1 255, id2 255
Trying Mx29f002, 256 KB
probe_29f002id1 255, id2 255
Trying SST29EE020A, 256 KB
probe_jedecid1 255, id2 255
Trying SST28SF040A, 512 KB
probe_28sf040id1 255, id2 255
Trying SST39SF020A, 256 KB
probe_39sf020id1 255, id2 255
Trying SST39VF020, 256 KB
probe_39sf020id1 255, id2 255
Trying W29C020C, 256 KB
probe_jedecid1 255, id2 255
Trying W49F002U, 256 KB
probe_49f002id1 255, id2 255
Trying M29F400BT, 512 KB
probe_m29f400bt id1 ff, id2 ff
Trying 82802ab, 512 KB
probe_82802abid1 255, id2 255
EEPROM not found

> I think we may still be at 'no write enable to flash :-('

so to be able to detect the flash part I need to enable flash write? I
have the data sheet and found the sequence of commands to enable flash
write to it. but that still doesn't explain the wrong return for the id1
& id2...

I'll look into it a little more. I think with the bit of reading I've
found in the flash parts spec sheets I may be able to make a little more
sense of the code found in flash_and_burn... hopefully ;)
-- 
Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca>
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