[coreboot] [flashrom] unusual SST39SF020 chip

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 16.05.2008 10:27, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 15/05/2008 13:24 Stefan Reinauer said the following:
>> What's the mainboard? Maybe the mainboard protects the chip with an
>> additional GPIO line.
>
> Yes, this turned out to be the case.
> I glimpsed "somewhere" that on this motherboard value in IO register
> 0x4037 has to be and-ed with 0xef to enable writing to BIOS area (i.e.
> bit 4 has to be cleared).
> In my particular configuration 0x4000 is power-management IO base of
> PIIX4. And PIIX4 spec says that registers 0x34-37 control GPO signals
> (general purpose outputs). So this would make it, what, GPO28.
>
> I did that and:
> $ ./flashrom -r -v -f bios.3.dd
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel PIIX4/4E/4M", enabling flash write... OK.
> SST39SF020A found at physical address 0xfffc0000.
> Flash part is SST39SF020A (256 KB).
> ===
> This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE
> WRITE
> Please email a report to flashrom at coreboot.org if any of the above
> operations
> work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full
> output
> from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help!
> ===
> Reading Flash...done
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

Very nice. Can you send a patch which adds a board enable routine for
your board?


Regards,
Carl-Daniel