[coreboot] [flashrom] report error on flashrom read

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri May 15 01:18:43 CEST 2009


[moving to coreboot@]

On 15.05.2009 00:58, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:13:45PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> Can you please run
>> flashrom -V
>> and mail the output to us? This will help us to add support for your chip.
>>
>> On 14.05.2009 23:00, wangji wrote:
>>     
>>>  ./flashrom -r YellowPc.rom
>>>  flashrom v0.9.0-r510
>>>  No coreboot table found.
>>>  Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
>>>  Calibrating delay loop... OK.
>>>  Found chip "EON unknown EON SPI chip" (0 KB) at physical address 0x0.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Great. First time that the unknown chip logic triggered and it was
>> immediately useful.
>>
>>     
>>>  ===
>>>  This flash part has status NOT WORKING for operations: PROBE READ ERASE
>>> WRITE
>>>  Please email a report to flashrom at coreboot.org if any of the above
>>> operations
>>>  work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full
>>> output
>>>  from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help!
>>>  ===
>>>       
>
> -> would it make sense to suggest to the user to write to us with flashrom -V
> output, since we want that output to debug almost all problems?
>   

Indeed. We should also tell the user not to reboot and mail us or join
IRC if any modifying operation fails.

My medium-term plan is to have flashrom read the flash before any erase
or write (with opt-out possibility) and if erase fails halfway through,
try to restore.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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