[LinuxBIOS] #87: flashrom issues on m57sli-s4

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 13.11.2007 19:34, Harald Gutmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 16:53:54 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
>   
>> Strange. None of the changes in my patch show up in your superiotool
>> output. That either means these registers are special or some part of
>> the patch was ineffective or it was not applied.
>>     
> you are right! - it seems that somewhere a mistake happened to me, but i can't 
> say exactly where.
>   

Thanks for retrying manually.

> i attached a diff between the superiotool output from new linuxbios with your 
> patch and the output from superiotool from an older revision of lb.
> also a second diff between the new lb version with your patch and the 
> propritary bios is attached. (superiotool outputs)
>   

Thanks! It seems the patch is almost commit-ready.

> flashrom also don't fail any more with the "old" error message, but it seems 
> to hang on probing for the mx25l4005a:
> benchvice flashrom # ./flashrom -m gigabyte:m57sli -V
> Calibrating delay loop... 916M loops per second. OK.
> Found canidate at: 00000530-00000e44
> Found LinuxBIOS table at 0x00000530.
> LinuxBIOS table found at 0x2ac58971e530.
> LinuxBIOS header(24) checksum: 5897 table(2324) checksum: 0c99 entries: 14
> Vendor ID: GIGABYTE, part ID: m57sli
> Overwritten by command line, vendor ID: gigabyte, part ID: m57sli.
> Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
> Found board "GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4": enabling flash write... Serial flash 
> segment 0xfffe0000-0xffffffff enabled
> Serial flash segment 0x000e0000-0x000fffff enabled
> Serial flash segment 0xffee0000-0xffefffff disabled
> Serial flash segment 0xfff80000-0xfffeffff enabled
> LPC write to serial flash enabled
> serial flash pin 29
> OK.
> Probing for Am29F040B, 512 KB
> probe_29f040b: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
> Probing for Am29LV040B, 512 KB
> probe_29f040b: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
> Probing for Am29F016D, 2048 KB
> probe_29f040b: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
> Probing for AE49F2008, 256 KB
> probe_jedec: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
> Probing for At29C040A, 512 KB
> probe_jedec: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
> Probing for At29C020, 256 KB
> probe_jedec: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
> Probing for MBM29F400TC, 512 KB
> probe_m29f400bt: id1 0x7f, id2 0x4c
> Probing for MX29F002, 256 KB
> probe_29f002: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
> Probing for MX25L4005, 512 KB
>
> at this point nothing more happens.
>   

Can you abort flashrom with Ctrl-C or does the whole machine hang? If
the machine does not hang, can you give me an Acked-by: tag? That way I
can commit and improve from there.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel