[coreboot] Generic AMD E350 Support

Graeme Russ graeme.russ at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 00:43:00 CEST 2012


Hi Peter,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> Graeme Russ wrote:
>> I found the BIOS chip:
>>
>> MXIO MX
>> 25L1606E
>> M2I-126
>> 3J761000
>>    Z120272
>>
>> 16Mb (8MB), 200mil 8-SOP, -40°C to 85°C, 86MHz, Pb-Free
>
> MXIC yep. Solder something to it so that you can reprogram. Use the

I was thinking of buying an 8 pin SOIP test clip

> VCC on the chip for programming. Hold the mainboard in reset while
> you drive the SPI signals. I would check first that the chipset
> doesn't sink too much current. (Ampmeter+2k2 resistor between VCC
> and one signal at a time. The current should stay well under 1.5mA.)

I have an in-circuit programmer I used on another board (which had a
breakout header for the SPI flash). Do you think I could just use this
with the board powered-down?

Regards,

Graeme




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