[flashrom] FLASHROM fails on my AM1 Kabinis with
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awokd at danwin1210.me
Sun Oct 7 15:06:06 CEST 2018
Branko Badrljica wrote on 10/5/18 12:55 PM:
> I'm in dire need te reflash a couple of BIOS chips.
>
>
> Unfotunately, all my boards which I used to use for this purpose are
> rebellign against me.
>
>
> I have a couple of Kabinis ( Athlon 5370) on cheap AM1 boards and have
> noticed that "flashrom -p internal" fails on each one with
>
> "Found chipset AMD FCH"
>
> "Enabling flash write... ERROR: State of SpiAccesMacRomEn or
> SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access"
>
> At first, I thot that I might have miscompiled something in the kernel
> or that flashrom doesn't jive with my Hardened Gentoo or something like
> that. So I used Kali Linux and burned it toUSB stick ( it has flasrom
> packaged).
>
>
> With the exactly the same end result.
>
> I've tried git version and versions 0.98 and 0.99. Older one ( 0.96 ?)
> compained that it doesn't know Kabini's chipset...
>
> THis HW used to work with flashrom. What changed ?
Looks like it would generate a different error, but you might need
iomem=relaxed in the kernel options.
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