[LinuxBIOS] Flashrom is not detecting 2MiB flash

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Wed Sep 6 16:18:03 CEST 2006


* Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis at gmail.com> [060906 13:42]:
>     You are going to run into issues with the VT8237 accessing  address
>     space with block locking registers in the SST49LF160C or SST49LF016C.
> 
> 
> Sure, the original MB flash part is 256KB, but I see it detect 512KB flashes
> too.
 
The LF160 is 2048KB, right? So on the VT8237 you see maximum 1/4 of the
flash.
 
> Well, I am not a flash expert, but I don't see any warnning on SST49LF160C
> datashet.
 
You need to compare it command per command with another Jedec chip to
find out :-}


Stefan

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