[coreboot] [PATCH] [flashrom] Numony support

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat Aug 2 20:31:21 CEST 2008


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 02.08.2008 17:04, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>
>   
>> Add support for Numonyx M25PE80. This chip requires to be erased blockwise, as
>> the c7 method is unreliable, either for ICH7 or for this chip.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
>>   
>>     
>
> Please don't commit yet. There's another chip erase command which may be
> more reliable. More later.
>   

The method I sent can be considered 100% reliable. A script measuring 
data in 200 flash writes has not revealed a single failure.

What other method are you suggesting? Are you coming up with a patch? 
I'd gladly test anything as long as it's more generic than what I sent.

Stefan

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