hello michael and thanks for your report! On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:08:08 -0500 Michael Sternberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to report a couple of mixed cases for several nodes having a > "Winbond W39V080FA" chip. > > First, I was using flashrom-v0.9.1. I had success with about 6 nodes, then > the flash failed on the next two. The ERASE step succeeded, but the > Programming step hung at address 0c0000. So far, I could recover one of the > chips in another node (PLCC32 socket). I booted normally, then hot-swapped in > the failed chip and was quite happy when a read succeeded using a newly > installed flashrom v0.9.3-r1299 (from Fedora EPEL). Re-flash then succeeded > for this chip as well. I could not find a significant difference between the > nodes that succeeded and those that did not. They started with the same BIOS, > but the CMOS may have differed. I then continued with flashrom v0.9.3-r1299 > for more nodes and did not have a failure so far (ran on 8 nodes). > > I realize that the thin statistics alone do not support declaring full > success, but hope that the evidently changed write regime (erase/write is now > interleaved) has done the trick. since none failed with the newer version, i think it is safe to declare it as working until further notice. > 0.9.1 SUCCESS LOG wow, that's ancient! :) > > flashrom v0.9.3-r1299 on Linux 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (x86_64), built with > libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50), little endian > flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org > > Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 2664M loops per > second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 101 us, 1000 myus = 1000 us, 10000 myus = > 10001 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK. > Initializing internal programmer > No coreboot table found. > DMI string system-manufacturer: "Supermicro" > DMI string system-product-name: "X7DBT" > DMI string system-version: "0123456789" > DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Supermicro" > DMI string baseboard-product-name: "X7DBT" > DMI string baseboard-version: "PCB Version" > DMI string chassis-type: "Other" > Found chipset "Intel 631xESB/632xESB/3100", enabling flash write... chipset > PCI ID is 8086:2670, i would like to mark your board as supported. the dmi data indicates that is a this board: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBT.cfm there are similar boards which may have the same signature, especially this one: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBT-INF.cfm can you please state the exact model of the board(s) you have tested? > This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: WRITE i have marked it as fully tested now. > Unlocking block at 0x0 > Unlocking block at 0x10000 > Unlocking block at 0x20000 > Unlocking block at 0x30000 > Unlocking block at 0x40000 > Unlocking block at 0x50000 > Unlocking block at 0x60000 > Unlocking block at 0x70000 > Unlocking block at 0x80000 > Unlocking block at 0x90000 > Unlocking block at 0xa0000 > Unlocking block at 0xb0000 > Unlocking block at 0xc0000 > Unlocking block at 0xd0000 > Unlocking block at 0xe0000 > Unlocking block at 0xf0000 i have also changed the format of this messages to use 32 bits/8 characters. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
