2011/5/30 <[email protected]>: > Dear Mr Vollering, > > I am sorry for the language mixing, I was not aware that other people than > my replier ( Stefan Tauner ) would receive my answer.
That is the difference between replying and replying to all recipients ;) > Due to his informal answer ( smiles etc ) I tried to answer back the same way. > > As a Bios engineer, as far as I know, we only use your software to flash the > Bios in some cases where we are under Linux. Our usual way to flash our > machines is a Bios Integrated utility under EFI Shell. > > Thanks again for your help and for the nice job you are doing. Thanks. The build you're offering (flashrom-bin-x86_64-20081003.tar) looks outdated though, it is from 2008 and targets 64-bit hardware only. Is that on purpose, e.g. you exclusively sell 64-bit hardware? > > Best Regards > Amine Rebai > > > > > > > > De : Idwer Vollering <[email protected]> > A : [email protected] > Cc : [email protected] > Date : 30/05/2011 15:15 > Objet : Re: [flashrom] Intel SandyBridge serie 6 chipsets support > ________________________________ > > > 2011/5/30 <[email protected]>: >> Hallo Stefan, >> >> Wir könnten eigentlich deutsch sprechen ;). >> >> Ja, unsere Kunden benützen auch flashrom. Wir haben usere EFI shell >> flashing >> tool, aber die Kunden benützen das Linux Shell am liebsten, besonders wenn >> du viele Clusters/Servers flashen muss. >> >> Stimmt, das SPI interface in « Intel Chipset Serie 6 » ist fast wie die >> vorausgegangen. Es gibt ME protection und special « unlocking sequence » >> mit >> special opcodes. >> >> Aber mein Problem ist vor diesen Sachen. « chipset_flash_enable » findet >> nicht das PCH: >> « This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. >> WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail. » >> >> und das PCH device_id (Vendor ID:0x8086, Device ID:0x244e ) existiert >> nicht >> in das «chipset_enables » stuct. ( mein PCH heisst Patsburg oder C200 >> chipset ). >> >> Wenn ich « enable_flash_ich10 » Funktion nötige, es funkioniert auch >> nicht. >> Maximum FWH chip size: 0x0 bytes BIOS Lock Enable: >> disabled, >> BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x0 tried to set 0xdc to >> 0x1 on ICH10 failed (WARNING ONLY) Root Complex Register Block >> address = 0x0 Error accessing ICH RCRB, 0x4000 bytes at 0x00000000 >> /dev/mem mmap failed: Resource temporarily unavailableIch werde >> vielleicht eine neue funktion schreiben ;). >> Vielen Dank. >> >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen >> Amine Rebai > > It is not very "freundlich" (friendly) to write a reply in an other > language than English, given the fact that your first message was > written in English. > > Also, the download named flashrom-bin-x86_64-20081003.tar [1] is > behind a 'paywall' / customer login. There is no trace of "flashrom is > GPL software" at that website, where can anyone download, if there are > any, your patches? > > Thanks, > Idwer > > [1] > http://support.bull.com/ols/product/platforms/hw-extremcomp/bullx-R/dl/toolf/tool > >> >> >> >> >> De : Stefan Tauner <[email protected]> >> A : [email protected] >> Cc : [email protected] >> Date : 27/05/2011 20:02 >> Objet : Re: [flashrom] Intel SandyBridge serie 6 chipsets support >> ________________________________ >> >> >> On Fri, 27 May 2011 14:58:57 +0200 >> [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Dear Flahsrom representant, >> hello! >> >>> I am a Bios engineer at BULL, a major european server and supercomputer >>> company «www.bull.com » . >>> >>> First of all, I would like to thank you for the great job you are doing, >>> we use your utility a lot. >> nice to hear that, thank you. is it offered to your customers too? >> >>> I would like to know if you are planning to support the Bios SPI flash >>> flashing on the Intel SandyBridge architecture, especially the Intel 6 >>> series chipset/C200/Patsburg platform controller hub? >> >> the spi interface of the 6 series chipset is very similar to the >> previous ones and as long as there is no locking in place (i am talking >> about PR0-PR4 and related "security" stuff) it may already work, have >> you tried it? >> >> in case of locking in place (that might be a requirement in nowadays >> chipsets due to the requirement of using the ME) flashrom would not >> work yet. i am working on this problem within the scope of my google >> summer of code project which should be completed by the end of summer. >> dont hold your breath though please ;) >> >> -- >> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> flashrom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom >> > > _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
