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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Hi David,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Sorry for the late reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D">I have done the changes as suggested and don’t see either 1 or 2 for op.atomic after issuing the “flashrom –V –p internal:this_is_not_a_laptop –r foo.bin” command.
Please see attached log.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Will this now confirm that the flashrom utility cannot be used for BIOS upgrade on my board?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D">NOTE: The log is collected for AT25DF641A(8MB) flash as opposed to AT25DF321A(4MB) flash before.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Thanks for the help,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D">Raghu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> David Hendricks [mailto:dhendrix@google.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Raghuramchary Jallipalli<br>
<b>Cc:</b> flashrom@flashrom.org; V Balaji; Vishnuvardhan Reddy<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [flashrom] Help: unable to upgrade bios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Raghuramchary Jallipalli <<a href="mailto:Raghuramchary.Jallipalli@lntinfotech.com" target="_blank">Raghuramchary.Jallipalli@lntinfotech.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks David.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As you said, the reason for not programming is due to wrong op.atomic configuration. Is there any way
to set these properly?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It should be set automatically.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carl-Daniel clarified on IRC that the "atomic" cycle flag will always be 0 at the stage they are printed. Sorry for the confusion!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I recommend adding a debug print to ich9_run_opcode() to see what the "atomic" flag ends up being:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027"">Index: ichspi.c</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027"">===================================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027"">--- ichspi.c (revision 1483)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027"">+++ ichspi.c (working copy)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027"">@@ -908,6 +908,7 @@</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027""> This means the timeout must be sufficient for chip erase</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027""> of slow high-capacity chips.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027""> */</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027"">+ msg_pdbg("opcode: 0x%02x, spi_type: %u, atomic: %u\n", op.opcode, op.spi_type, op.atomic);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027""> switch (op.atomic) {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027""> case 2:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"\0027Courier New\0027""> /* Select second preop. */</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then run "flashrom -V -p internal:this_is_not_a_laptop -r foo.bin" and make sure that the sector erase opcode (0x20) and byte program opcode (0x02) show either "1" or "2" for op.atomic.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This will help us to prove whether or not this is the problem you are encountering.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yes jumper selects the ROM at a time.</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Okay. I do not think Flashrom is confused about the flash part, then.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>
David Hendricks (dhendrix)<br>
Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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