>On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:18:01AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x0003fc9e! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4f, >> failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x231f7 >> > >Now it explodes. This is very strange. > > >> DIGI-KEY Part No. SST39SF040-70-4C-PHE >> IC FLASH MPF 4MBIT (512KBYTES) 70NS 32DIP >> > >That should have worked. Can you try to update to the very latest >flashrom from svn and write the old image back? I hope that survives the >verify. >Please also send a log of the write attempt with latest flashrom from >svn. Maybe it has some useful info.
Yes. You are right. I was burning a coreboot image, and rebooting and coreboot seemed to execute without issues besides the usual stuff relevant to coreboot code. I'll checkout svn flashrom sometime and post back my results. I also have to re-enter this fat thing into the motherboard rom again. :-/ (zif is too tight of a fit and usb pic programmers cost way too much.) >> This is flashing using a Tyan S1832DL board >> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host >> bridge (rev 03) >> ... >> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) >> >> (... am I getting this right, flashrom uses the ISA bridge to write to flash >> part?) >> > >Correct. On that board, the flash chip is attached to the ISA bridge. >Later boards have a LPC bridge to which the flash chip is attached. Ah. Thanks for helping to demystify this stuff for me. -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/ _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
