Hi James, thank you for the report!
I've created a patch which marks the chip as successfully probed and read [0]. We've have a somewhat working progress indicator with `--progress`, but it needs a big overhaul to work proper. -- Thomas [0] https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/73362 On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 18:07 +0100, James Russell wrote: > Hi, I just did a backup of the BIOS chip of a new laptop I got. in > case something happened to be able to restore it all to sane > defaults. > > Freshly built Flashrom snapshot on a live Arch (Manjaro) environment, > the chip is an XM25QH256C[XIQ] in a WSON8 package (6x8), I didn't > want to desolder the chip and I noticed some exposed solder where the > contacts would be so I did the dump using a pogo pin contraption > attached to the CH341a. It is an old programmer I've had for years (I > don't think there's any cheap-ish alternative using at least USB 2.0 > that is supported by Flashrom, so... it was slow), both Vcc and the > data lines ran at 3.3-ish volts. > > After the message that appeared during the read I thought "damn, I > didn't enable verbose output nor was I logging the operation", so I > did a verify operation afterwards which is essentially the same. Log > is attached and if you need the contents of the ROM I can attach them > too (32MiB). > > I didn't do much in-depth analysis of the ROM but it seems correct, > at least I can see UEFI and ME structures in there. > > Sadly, I don't plan on writing to that chip anytime soon, at least > not until I get a replacement because the setup is not very stable > and I don't want to risk the connection getting interrupted. These > XMC chips are hard to come by in my area, but Mouser sells an > equivalent Winbond that is also supported and is greenlit to be used > in this laptop; so I had ordered one of those to have at hand. > > Anyway, I digress haha, you have the Verify log attached to this > email (I thought there'd be more data there). > > Regards, > James. > > PS. I think it's not implemented, but perhaps adding a progress > indicator (since the flash chip's size is known) to read/write > operations would be handy, if it weren't for an indicator LED on my > programmer board I wouldn't really know if it was progressing or not. > _______________________________________________ > flashrom mailing list -- flashrom@flashrom.org > To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-le...@flashrom.org _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- flashrom@flashrom.org To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-le...@flashrom.org
