On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:40:28AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Ward Vandewege wrote: > > So, you've verified that the image that flashrom reads matches what you can > > download from the manufacturers website (extracted)? > > There will often be small differences between those, too. ie. in the > "DMI area".
Sure. This one was entirely different. > > Flashrom doesn't crash or anything here, and it might just *write* fine (not > > tested yet), but reading gives the wrong data. > > Don't try it unless reading works reliably. Writing "requires reading" > for the write to work. (It polls for the data to "arrive" in the chip") Yeah, sure. > > We know, because we got the ID > > for the chip back, that at least a couple of writes to the chip succeeded. > > Weird. This is a pretty good sign that shadowing is disabled, normally. > > Maybe not all of shadowing is disabled? only half the chip? I really don't know. I'm glad we caught this bug though - given that this board doesn't have a socket (at least in the rev that we have), it might have led to a nasty surprise for someone. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
