Hi Jens, On 06.06.2008 20:50, Jens Kuehnel wrote: > Hi coreboot list, > > I visited the coreboot/flashrom talk during linuxtag, and was really >
I remember... you were the one who brought hardware to the workshop. > impressed how "easy" it is can help/to hack. My target is to let > coreboot run on my alix2c2 (the one with only 2 network cards). > The advantage for me is, its similar to an existing target (not too > hard), but far enough to learn something. > That's great. > My first problem it that flashrom does not support my flashchip. > But I hope I can fix this. :-) Patch attached. > Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately it seems your mailer wrapped the patch. Thunderbird users either - have to attach the patch or - select HTML composition, then choose "Preformat", then paste the patch and then send it and confirm converting the mail to plain text. > But before I break my flash. Is it possible to destroy the chip, by > using the wrong method? > In theory, this should not happen. In practice, old or extremely cheap flash chips can have sticky bits after a few erase cycles. I think the risk for your board is almost zero. > The chip is a AMIC A49LF040A. It look like a SST 49LF040 replacement, I > found the IDs @ http://www.amictechnology.com/pdf/A49LF040A.pdf. > > I have a "LPC.1A", which means I can recover from bad flashes. But I > don't like to solder SMD. > > Can someone with more experience look over it, before I test it? Thanks > a lot! > I'd like to do that, but the patch was so mangled that I had problems reading it. It looks like you put vendor and device ID together in AMIC_A49LF040A. The vendor ID you want is probably AMIC_ID_NOPREFIX. > Greetings from Frankfurt/M (Germany) > Greetings from Tuebingen (same country) Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
