[flashrom] chip "PMC Pm29F002T" test results

Tadas S mrtadis at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 21:17:26 CEST 2010


>> coreboot last image size (not ROM size) is 262144 bytes.
>
> Hm, I guess this string could use some clarification/rewording, it
> probably just confuses most users (including myself).

I don't understand, was this quote in my message?


2010/9/7, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 06:22:42PM +0300, Tadas S wrote:
>> Mainboard is MSI MS-6119. I used dmidecode 2.10. "foo.bin" replaced with
>> working image filename.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>> Superiotool from coreboot isn't working right, it started the login
>> console
>> somehow, so the log isn't complete. Any suggestions? :)
>
> I don't understand the question. The superiotool output you attached
> looks OK.
>
>
>> flashrom v0.9.2-r1146 on Linux 2.6.34-ARCH (i686), built with libpci
>> 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.0 20100610 (prerelease), little endian
>> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>>
>> Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 5 usecs, 199M loops per
>> second, 10 myus = 13 us, 100 myus = 102 us, 1000 myus = 997 us, 10000 myus
>> = 10047 us, 20 myus = 23 us, OK.
>> Initializing internal programmer
>> No coreboot table found.
>> DMI string system-manufacturer: ""
>> DMI string system-product-name: ""
>> DMI string system-version: ""
>> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: ""
>> DMI string baseboard-product-name: ""
>> DMI string baseboard-version: ""
>> DMI string chassis-type: ""
>
> The empty DMI strings are due to you running on coreboot (which doesn't
> provide DMI tables usually). Could you retry the write operation using
> the vendor BIOS and post that output? Thanks!
>
>
>> This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE
>> The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest
>> development
>> version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version,
>> please email a report to flashrom at flashrom.org if any of the above
>> operations
>> work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom
>> output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V,
>> -Vr,
>> -Vw, -VE), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
>> Thanks for your help!
>> ===
>
>
>> coreboot last image size (not ROM size) is 262144 bytes.
>
> Hm, I guess this string could use some clarification/rewording, it
> probably just confuses most users (including myself).
>
>
>> Manufacturer: MSI
>> Mainboard ID: MS-6119
>> Note: If the following flash access fails, try -m <vendor>:<mainboard>.
>> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... Looking at blockwise erase
>> function 0... trying... 0x000000-0x01ffff, 0x020000-0x037fff,
>> 0x038000-0x039fff, 0x03a000-0x03bfff, 0x03c000-0x03ffff,
>> SUCCESS.
>> Programming page: address: 0x00000000 [...] DONE
>> COMPLETE.
>> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
>
> Looks good.
>
> We'll mark your board as supported soon.
>
>
> Uwe.
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