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As usual sorry for late reply, I had to wait for a board to lay my hand
on.<br>
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Answers to requested data is below.<br>
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Hi everyone,
one possible explanation of the failing chip probes is the amount of RAM
in the tested machines. The common pattern of the failing machines seems
to be that they have more than 3 GB (or more than 2 GB) of RAM.
Depending on BIOS and kernel versions, this might result in cached
mapping of the flash chip and that will cause probing to fail.
So if those who have problems detecting the flash chip could physically
remove some RAM to get down to 2 GB (or less) and run flashrom again in
verbose mode (please use unpatched latest flashrom), that might give us
a hint about what is failing here.
Those who have working flash detection: Please tell us how much RAM you use.
</pre>
</blockquote>
I installed 2GB of ram in this first run of tests.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Besides that, it would be great if you could:
- tell us the exact BIOS version
</pre>
</blockquote>
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4.01.2915<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">- tell us the exact kernel version
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
debian linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64 version 2.6.32-7<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">- send in the first 200 lines of your dmesg (preferably directly after boot)
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
attached file flashrom-cold-output-2gb.txt<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">- send the contents of /proc/mtrr
</pre>
</blockquote>
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reg00: base=0x000000000 ( 0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">- send the contents of /sys/kernel/debug/x86/pat_memtype_list (may need
mounted debugfs).
</pre>
</blockquote>
PAT memtype list:<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde3000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fde9000-0x7fdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fdea000-0x7fdeb000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0x7fdea000-0x7fdeb000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0000000-0xb0004000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0004000-0xb0005000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0005000-0xb0006000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0006000-0xb0007000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0007000-0xb0008000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0008000-0xb0009000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0009000-0xb000a000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb000b000-0xb000c000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0104000-0xb0105000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0300000-0xb0301000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb3000000-0xb312c000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xe0000000-0xe0700000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xfed00000-0xfed01000<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Please do this for your current config and for the config with less RAM
(and tell us which is which).
</pre>
</blockquote>
And now the same info with 4G of ram, of course with same kernel and
bios version.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">- send in the first 200 lines of your dmesg (preferably directly after boot)
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
attached file flashrom-cold-output-4gb.txt<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">- send the contents of /proc/mtrr
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
reg00: base=0x000000000 ( 0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back<br>
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 512MB, count=1: write-back<br>
reg02: base=0x0a0000000 ( 2560MB), size= 256MB, count=1: write-back<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">- send the contents of /sys/kernel/debug/x86/pat_memtype_list (may need
mounted debugfs).
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
PAT memtype list:<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde3000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafde9000-0xafdea000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafdea000-0xafdeb000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xafdea000-0xafdeb000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0000000-0xb0004000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0004000-0xb0005000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0005000-0xb0006000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0006000-0xb0007000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0007000-0xb0008000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0008000-0xb0009000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0009000-0xb000a000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb000b000-0xb000c000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0104000-0xb0105000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb0300000-0xb0301000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xb3000000-0xb312c000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xe0000000-0xe0700000<br>
uncached-minus @ 0xfed00000-0xfed01000<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
I expect some very interesting revelations.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
I hope this helps!<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4B66198F.6080102@gmx.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
On 28.01.2010 21:05, Phil wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Michael Karcher wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">We are still having inconsistent results. As a summary of mails on the
flashrom list about the S2915(-E):
21.10.2009, Alessandro Polverini (r736): No chip found
03.12.2009, Alessandro Polverini (r791+GPIO4): No chip found
19.01.2010, Phil (r710): No chip found
28.01.2010, Allesandro Polverini, other board (r884): Chip found
(SST49LF080A)
21.01.2010, Nicolas Aveline (r877;HP board): No chip found
08.12.2009, Joel Robertson (r710): Chip found (SST49LF080A)
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</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
Thanks for your cooperation.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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