[flashrom] Flashrom does not work with J7F5M

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:12:06PM +0200, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I tested flashrom on my Jetway J7F5M motherboard.
> 
> # flashrom
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA CX700", enabling flash write... OK.
> Found chip "Winbond W39V040B" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.
> No operations were specified.
> 
> So probing seems to work ok, as do reading. Writing, however, does not
> work - the image on the flash chip remains unchanged (had a sweaty
> moment after the FAILED message before I had read the chip again and
> diffed it against the backed-up original image!).
> 
> The "Protect flash part" option in BIOS is set to Disabled (I also tried
> Enabled, just to be sure).
> 
> 
> Is there any hope on getting flashrom support for this card? The
> AWDFLASH.EXE utility recommended for flashing by Jetway is "only" some
> sixty thousand bytes - any hints on reverse engineering this?
> 
> The computer is head-, FD- and CDR-less and runs linux, so it's a chore
> to flash it with the d**n DOS utility...
> 
> -- 
> Arvid

Please provide the output of lspci -vnn.

Luc Verhaegen.