[flashrom] BX100: there is a Linux tool to flash ROM images through any SATA adapter
Stefan Tauner
stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Jan 12 20:53:41 CET 2016
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:15:00 -0600
"Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch at kollasch.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 06:47:43PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Lately I have updated the firmware of my BX100 SSD drive with the
> > boot CD as provided by http://www.crucial.com/support/ssd. As it
> > turned out the boot CD is powered by Linux and the busybox the
> > firmware image being provided under /opt/firmware/MU02/1.bin in
> > /boot/core.gz which is a gzipped cpio file.
> > Would anyone care to analyse this media? I would love to see
> > HDD/SSD firmware flashing being supported by flashrom through some
> > more SATA controllers.
> >
> > Elmar
> >
> > P.S.: if my hint should not have been particularely helpful I would
> > like to know about that as well ...
>
> Flashrom expects to be able to access flash chips directly.
No, it doesn't. opaque.c, nicintel_eeprom.c.
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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