Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745
carldani, Requested output below. Invalid opcode? The MX25L8005 datasheet says the part supports opcode 0x03, read data. -Anthony ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -c MX25L8005 -V -r backup.bin flashrom v0.9.1-r837 No coreboot table found. Found chipset Intel ICH8/ICH8R, enabling flash write... 0xfff8/0xffb8 FWH IDSEL: 0x0 0xfff0/0xffb0 FWH IDSEL: 0x0 0xffe8/0xffa8 FWH IDSEL: 0x1 0xffe0/0xffa0 FWH IDSEL: 0x1 0xffd8/0xff98 FWH IDSEL: 0x2 0xffd0/0xff90 FWH IDSEL: 0x2 0xffc8/0xff88 FWH IDSEL: 0x3 0xffc0/0xff80 FWH IDSEL: 0x3 0xff70/0xff30 FWH IDSEL: 0x4 0xff60/0xff20 FWH IDSEL: 0x5 0xff50/0xff10 FWH IDSEL: 0x6 0xff40/0xff00 FWH IDSEL: 0x7 0xfff8/0xffb8 FWH decode enabled 0xfff0/0xffb0 FWH decode enabled 0xffe8/0xffa8 FWH decode disabled 0xffe0/0xffa0 FWH decode disabled 0xffd8/0xff98 FWH decode disabled 0xffd0/0xff90 FWH decode disabled 0xffc8/0xff88 FWH decode disabled 0xffc0/0xff80 FWH decode disabled 0xff70/0xff30 FWH decode disabled 0xff60/0xff20 FWH decode disabled 0xff50/0xff10 FWH decode disabled 0xff40/0xff00 FWH decode disabled Maximum FWH chip size: 0x10 bytes BIOS Lock Enable: enabled, BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x2 tried to set 0xdc to 0x3 on ICH8/ICH8R failed (WARNING ONLY) Root Complex Register Block address = 0xfeda8000 GCS = 0x460: BIOS Interface Lock-Down: disabled, BOOT BIOS Straps: 0x1 (SPI) Top Swap : not enabled SPIBAR = 0xfeda8000 + 0x3020 0x04: 0xa000 (HSFS) FLOCKDN 1, FDV 0, FDOPSS 1, SCIP 0, BERASE 0, AEL 0, FCERR 0, FDONE 0 0x50: 0x0202 (FRAP) BMWAG 0, BMRAG 0, BRWA 2, BRRA 2 0x54: 0x1fff (FREG0) 0x58: 0x1fff (FREG1) 0x5C: 0x1fff (FREG2) 0x60: 0x1fff (FREG3) 0x64: 0x (FREG4) 0x74: 0x (PR0) 0x78: 0x (PR1) 0x7C: 0x (PR2) 0x80: 0x (PR3) 0x84: 0x (PR4) 0x90: 0x00416004 (SSFS, SSFC) 0x94: 0x0606 (PREOP) 0x96: 0x4fc8 (OPTYPE) 0x98: 0x029fabab (OPMENU) 0x9C: 0x010502d8 (OPMENU+4) 0xA0: 0x (BBAR) 0xB0: 0x (FDOC) WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. Generating OPCODES... done SPI Read Configuration: prefetching disabled, caching enabled, FAILED! This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH,SPI. Calibrating delay loop... 504M loops per second, 100 myus = 197 us. OK. Probing for Macronix MX25L8005, 1024 KB: RDID returned 0xc2 0x20 0x14. probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Chip status register is 00 Chip status register: Status Register Write Disable (SRWD) is not set Chip status register: Bit 6 is not set Chip status register: Bit 5 / Block Protect 3 (BP3) is not set Chip status register: Bit 4 / Block Protect 2 (BP2) is not set Chip status register: Bit 3 / Block Protect 1 (BP1) is not set Chip status register: Bit 2 / Block Protect 0 (BP0) is not set Chip status register: Write Enable Latch (WEL) is not set Chip status register: Write In Progress (WIP/BUSY) is not set Found chip Macronix MX25L8005 (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff0. === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: ERASE Please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -rV, -wV, -EV), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested. Thanks for your help! === Reading flash... Invalid OPCODE 0x03 done. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Anthony, On 07.01.2010 22:55, Anthony DeRosa wrote: The bios version I am currently using (2.6.2) is no longer available for download, but i happen to have a copy of it attached (raw ROM file). I have stripped the ROM image from your mail before it could reach the list because we don't have distribution rights for ROM images. Below is the rest of the info. you asked for. ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -r backup.bin flashrom v0.9.1-r837 No coreboot table found. Found chipset Intel ICH8/ICH8R, enabling flash write... WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. FAILED! This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH,SPI. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip Macronix MX25L8005 (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff0. Reading flash... done. ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ hexdump backup.bin 000 * 010 Ouch. dmidecode snippet (bonus!) Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: Dell Inc. Version: 2.6.2 ROM Size: 1024 kB BIOS Revision: 2.6 flashrom -V flashrom v0.9.1-r837 No coreboot table found. Found chipset Intel ICH8/ICH8R, enabling flash write... 0xfff8/0xffb8 FWH IDSEL: 0x0
Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745
Hi Anthony, On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Anthony DeRosa anth...@ransomed.us wrote: carldani, Requested output below. Invalid opcode? The MX25L8005 datasheet says the part supports opcode 0x03, read data. IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into a special (non-volatile?) memory, then reboot the machine. Once it reboots, it will automatically start to flash. The same technique is used by IBM with most of their Thinkpad models, I don't know whether this still applies to the more recent Lenovo models. Btw: I think Dell also provides flash utilities for Linux (since they ship machines with Ubuntu), but my memory might deceive me ;). Adrian ___ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Adrian Glaubitz adrian.glaub...@googlemail.com wrote: IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into a special (non-volatile?) memory, then reboot the machine. Once it reboots, it will automatically start to flash. wow, how ... special. So you have no visibility into the reflash process and no idea of its progress. This is the default mode for many new BIOSes, I understand, since so many of them are EFI at the core. It's not an improvement for the customer, but it's what the vendors are going to provide. It's very disappointing. ron ___ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745
On 08.01.2010 18:06, ron minnich wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Adrian Glaubitz wrote IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into a special (non-volatile?) memory, then reboot the machine. Once it reboots, it will automatically start to flash. wow, how ... special. So you have no visibility into the reflash process and no idea of its progress. I think the special Dell stuff has existed for years. Back then, they probably didn't know (or didn't care) about flashrom, and nowadays this flashing procedure is actually a reliability advantage over the alternative: Windows flashers. Flashing from a multitasking OS (especially if not done as kernel driver) means there are no guarantees whatsoever about timing, reliability, crash resistance and other stuff you'd care about. You can find boatloads of reports from people who bricked their machines by flashing under Windows, and because people are too unskilled (or unwilling) to run DOS based flashers, it all burns down to doing the reflashing from the BIOS. This is the default mode for many new BIOSes, I understand, since so many of them are EFI at the core. It's not an improvement for the customer, but it's what the vendors are going to provide. It's very disappointing. I think this is only somewhat related to EFI (first time you can easily add executables to the BIOS). Most of it is about reliability concerns. And if you look at vendors like Sun, it seems there is an unwillingness to perform host-based flashing at all, instead they opt to run the reflashing process from the Management Engine. I see a flashrom driver for such Management Engines on the horizon (unless they are not providing direct hardware access), but since I don't own the hardware, this is pretty low priority for me. Now if we could motivate at least one board vendor to ship (or offer for download) flashrom CDs for reflashing their boards, we'd win big time. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- Developer quote of the year: We are juggling too many chainsaws and flaming arrows and tigers. ___ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745
On 08.01.2010 16:16, Anthony DeRosa wrote: Requested output below. Invalid opcode? The MX25L8005 datasheet says the part supports opcode 0x03, read data. As discussed on IRC, the READ opcode 0x03 is not supported by your chipset configuration. ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -c MX25L8005 -V -r backup.bin flashrom v0.9.1-r837 No coreboot table found. Found chipset Intel ICH8/ICH8R, enabling flash write... [...] BIOS Lock Enable: enabled, BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x2 GCS = 0x460: BIOS Interface Lock-Down: disabled, BOOT BIOS Straps: 0x1 (SPI) FLOCKDN 1, FDV 0, FDOPSS 1, SCIP 0, BERASE 0, AEL 0, FCERR 0, FDONE 0 0x98: 0x029fabab (OPMENU) 0x9C: 0x010502d8 (OPMENU+4) [...] WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. Generating OPCODES... done SPI Read Configuration: prefetching disabled, caching enabled, FAILED! This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH,SPI. Probing for Macronix MX25L8005, 1024 KB: RDID returned 0xc2 0x20 0x14. probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Chip status register is 00 Chip status register: Status Register Write Disable (SRWD) is not set Chip status register: Bit 6 is not set Chip status register: Bit 5 / Block Protect 3 (BP3) is not set Chip status register: Bit 4 / Block Protect 2 (BP2) is not set Chip status register: Bit 3 / Block Protect 1 (BP1) is not set Chip status register: Bit 2 / Block Protect 0 (BP0) is not set Chip status register: Write Enable Latch (WEL) is not set Chip status register: Write In Progress (WIP/BUSY) is not set Found chip Macronix MX25L8005 (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff0. Reading flash... Invalid OPCODE 0x03 done. This is a bug, though. If we encounter an Invalid opcode error during read, we should NOT write that file at all, and we should NOT report success. Will fix. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- Developer quote of the year: We are juggling too many chainsaws and flaming arrows and tigers. ___ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:06:52AM -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Adrian Glaubitz adrian.glaub...@googlemail.com wrote: IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into a special (non-volatile?) memory, then reboot the machine. Once it reboots, it will automatically start to flash. wow, how ... special. So you have no visibility into the reflash process and no idea of its progress. This is the default mode for many new BIOSes, I understand, since so many of them are EFI at the core. It's not an improvement for the customer, but it's what the vendors are going to provide. It's very disappointing. I see one very good reason to try this (apart from several negative ones): Malware. If malware manages to program itself into the BIOS, then it will control what the OS sees - and has possibility to thwart any and all attempts at detecting/repairing such a program. If the BIOS only accepts signed BIOS updates for reflashing, then this could prevent that kind of malware. Ciao Joerg -- Joerg Mayer jma...@loplof.de We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. ___ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745
Hi Anthony, On 07.01.2010 22:55, Anthony DeRosa wrote: The bios version I am currently using (2.6.2) is no longer available for download, but i happen to have a copy of it attached (raw ROM file). I have stripped the ROM image from your mail before it could reach the list because we don't have distribution rights for ROM images. Below is the rest of the info. you asked for. ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -r backup.bin flashrom v0.9.1-r837 No coreboot table found. Found chipset Intel ICH8/ICH8R, enabling flash write... WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. FAILED! This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH,SPI. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip Macronix MX25L8005 (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff0. Reading flash... done. ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ hexdump backup.bin 000 * 010 Ouch. dmidecode snippet (bonus!) Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: Dell Inc. Version: 2.6.2 ROM Size: 1024 kB BIOS Revision: 2.6 flashrom -V flashrom v0.9.1-r837 No coreboot table found. Found chipset Intel ICH8/ICH8R, enabling flash write... 0xfff8/0xffb8 FWH IDSEL: 0x0 0xfff0/0xffb0 FWH IDSEL: 0x0 0xffe8/0xffa8 FWH IDSEL: 0x1 0xffe0/0xffa0 FWH IDSEL: 0x1 0xffd8/0xff98 FWH IDSEL: 0x2 0xffd0/0xff90 FWH IDSEL: 0x2 0xffc8/0xff88 FWH IDSEL: 0x3 0xffc0/0xff80 FWH IDSEL: 0x3 0xff70/0xff30 FWH IDSEL: 0x4 0xff60/0xff20 FWH IDSEL: 0x5 0xff50/0xff10 FWH IDSEL: 0x6 0xff40/0xff00 FWH IDSEL: 0x7 0xfff8/0xffb8 FWH decode enabled 0xfff0/0xffb0 FWH decode enabled 0xffe8/0xffa8 FWH decode disabled 0xffe0/0xffa0 FWH decode disabled 0xffd8/0xff98 FWH decode disabled 0xffd0/0xff90 FWH decode disabled 0xffc8/0xff88 FWH decode disabled 0xffc0/0xff80 FWH decode disabled 0xff70/0xff30 FWH decode disabled 0xff60/0xff20 FWH decode disabled 0xff50/0xff10 FWH decode disabled 0xff40/0xff00 FWH decode disabled Maximum FWH chip size: 0x10 bytes BIOS Lock Enable: enabled, BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x2 tried to set 0xdc to 0x3 on ICH8/ICH8R failed (WARNING ONLY) OK, write to LPC flash is disabled. That's not good. Root Complex Register Block address = 0xfeda8000 GCS = 0x460: BIOS Interface Lock-Down: disabled, BOOT BIOS Straps: 0x1 (SPI) Then again, your BIOS lives on SPI, so you do not care about LPC. Top Swap : not enabled SPIBAR = 0xfeda8000 + 0x3020 0x04: 0xa000 (HSFS) FLOCKDN 1, FDV 0, FDOPSS 1, SCIP 0, BERASE 0, AEL 0, FCERR 0, FDONE 0 FLOCKDN=1 is not that good and means we can't modify the opcodes in the chipset. FDV=0 is good. 0x50: 0x0202 (FRAP) BMWAG 0, BMRAG 0, BRWA 2, BRRA 2 0x54: 0x1fff (FREG0) 0x58: 0x1fff (FREG1) 0x5C: 0x1fff (FREG2) 0x60: 0x1fff (FREG3) 0x64: 0x (FREG4) Totally weird region configuration. 0x74: 0x (PR0) 0x78: 0x (PR1) 0x7C: 0x (PR2) 0x80: 0x (PR3) 0x84: 0x (PR4) 0x90: 0x00422004 (SSFS, SSFC) 0x94: 0x0606 (PREOP) 0x96: 0x4fc8 (OPTYPE) 0x98: 0x029fabab (OPMENU) 0x9C: 0x010502d8 (OPMENU+4) 0xA0: 0x (BBAR) 0xB0: 0x (FDOC) WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. Good. flashrom detects the chipset lockdown. Generating OPCODES... done SPI Read Configuration: prefetching disabled, caching enabled, FAILED! This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH,SPI. Calibrating delay loop... 512M loops per second, 100 myus = 200 us. OK. Probing for Macronix MX25L8005, 1024 KB: RDID returned 0xc2 0x20 0x14. probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Chip status register is 00 Chip status register: Status Register Write Disable (SRWD) is not set Chip status register: Bit 6 is not set Chip status register: Bit 5 / Block Protect 3 (BP3) is not set Chip status register: Bit 4 / Block Protect 2 (BP2) is not set Chip status register: Bit 3 / Block Protect 1 (BP1) is not set Chip status register: Bit 2 / Block Protect 0 (BP0) is not set Chip status register: Write Enable Latch (WEL) is not set Chip status register: Write In Progress (WIP/BUSY) is not set Found chip Macronix MX25L8005 (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff0. No operations were specified. Hm. can you run flashrom -c MX25L8005 -V -r backup.bin and mail us about the output? There should be at least one transaction error or somesuch. We should NOT create a dump file on error. I have a patch for that in the queue. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- Developer quote of the year: We are juggling too many chainsaws and flaming arrows and tigers. ___ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
