[flashrom] Probe, Read, Erase, Write Success on Winbond W25Q16 with buspirate_spi

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Sun Jul 10 22:07:19 CEST 2011


On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 21:28:42 -0400
Jon Szymaniak <jon.szymaniak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Per the "UNTESTED" message I received in v0.9.3-r1364,  I just wanted to
> report a couple successful PROBE, READ, WRITE and ERASE operations on a
> Winbond W25Q16 with a BusPirate v2g0 (FW 4.1).  I suppose this is expected
> given that the W25X16 is supported, but thought someone might like to know
> ;).
> 
> I've attached the requested -V dumps for the aforementioned operations, as
> well as 'time' output for each operation.  With the BP v2g0 running FW v4.1,
> I was seeing ~30 min on a 2MB read, and ~90 min on a 2MB write.  I see that
> somewhere above FW v5.7 and with some flashrom patches I should be able to
> get some much quicker reads and writes.  If I can get that going, I'd be
> happy to do a bit more testing with this chip if you folks are interested.
> 
> Thank you for providing a wonderful piece of software...cheers!
> Jon Szymaniak

hello jon and thanks for your (thorough) report!
i have marked the chip as fully tested and will commit that later.

PS: uncompressed logs are preferred (because they can be easier
searched), no need to resend them though.
-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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