[flashrom] netbook hp 2133 mini :(

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 27.07.2010 00:51, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Hi Paweł,
>
> On 26.07.2010 23:49, Paweł Stawicki wrote:
>   
>> I tried flashrom on my netbook with this result
>> No EEPROM/flash device found.
>>
>> :(
>> netbook still works :)
>>
>> I'm attaching the result of:
>> sudo ./flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -V > flashrom.txt
>>   
>>     
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>   
>> flashrom v0.9.2-r1109 on Linux 2.6.32-21-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.3, little endian
>> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>>
>> Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 2 usecs, 374M loops per second, 10 myus = 11 us, 100 myus = 95 us, 1000 myus = 938 us, 10000 myus = 10079 us, 8 myus = 9 us, OK.
>> Initializing internal programmer
>> No coreboot table found.
>> DMI string system-manufacturer: "Hewlett-Packard"
>> DMI string system-product-name: "HP 2133"
>> DMI string system-version: "F.06"
>> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Hewlett-Packard"
>> DMI string baseboard-product-name: "3030"
>> DMI string baseboard-version: "KBC Version 07.17"
>> DMI string chassis-type: "Notebook"
>> Laptop detected via DMI
>> Found chipset "VIA VT8237S", enabling flash write... chipset PCI ID is 1106:3372, MMIO base at = 0xfed02000
>> 0x6c: 0xffff     (CLOCK/DEBUG)
>> Programming OPCODES... 
>> program_opcodes: preop=5006 optype=463b opmenu=05d80302c79f0190
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> The opmenu has opcodes 05 d8 03 02 c7 9f 01 90
>
>
>   
>> Setting BBAR is not implemented for VIA yet.
>> done
>> OK.
>> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
>> Probing for Atmel AT25DF021, 256 KB: Opcode 9f not found.
>> run OPCODE 0x9f failed
>>   
>>     
>
> And here flashrom complains about an opcode that should be present. Very
> odd. We will need to investigate this.
>   

I suspect that we're not handling some lockdown correctly. Could you do
a short check for us?
Insert directly before ichspi.c line 1068:
ichspi_lock = 1;

Then please recompile and run again in verbose mode. I don't expect
success, but I think we have a good chance to learn more.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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