Hi Nico, Thank you very much for the information.
Best regards, Zvika On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 6:18 PM Nico Huber <nic...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 10/6/18 2:46 PM, Zvi Vered wrote: > > Hello Nathaniel, Nico, > > > > Thank you very much for the detailed answers. > > > > The vendor's bin file starts with the following pattern: > > 00000000: FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF > > 00000010: 5AA5F00F 03000402 0602100B 20002100 > > > > Can you confirm that this is the start of IFD ? > > Yes, it is (at least the first 20B are distinctive). > > There is not much public documentation about it ([1] is all I know) > but you might find something less public with Google [2]. There's also > a lot of open-source code of programs that can parse it [3][4]. Code > is usually more accurate than documentation but it explains less about > the configuration bits. You'll have to ask Intel for the SPI Program- > ming Guide for your particular platform if you want to fully under- > stand it and craft your own. > > Nico > > [1] > https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/flashrom.git/plain/Documentation/mysteries_intel.txt > [2] "Intel" "SPI" "Programming Guide" *cough > [3] https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/flashrom.git/tree/ich_descriptors.c > [4] https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/util/ifdtool/ -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot