Re: [flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

2018-03-06 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Alex Henderson had to walk into mine at 09:08 on Tuesday 06 March 2018 and say: > Vadim: > Usually programming the firmware ROMs for Intel NICs requires software > from Intel. >

[flashrom] Flashrom innerworkings

2018-03-06 Thread Matthew Leon
Hello, I am interested in figuring out how flashrom writes to the flash, and where I can find resources to write my own version of flashrom. Sincerely, Matthew ___ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org

Re: [flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

2018-03-06 Thread Nico Huber
Hello Vadim, On 06.03.2018 09:50, Vadim Bulst wrote: > Dear list, > > I'm curious to know if it is possible to flash iPXE to these nics. > PCI-Id is listed in supported devices - 8086:1533 . > > [root@urzospoc01 src]# flashrom -p nicintel_eeprom:pci=01:00.0 > flashrom v1.0 on Linux

Re: [flashrom] Some troubles connecting a W25X40ALSNIG flash chip to raspberry pi (v3 model B)

2018-03-06 Thread Nico Huber
Hi, On 06.03.2018 00:20, Jesse Li wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to read from and flash to a W25X40ALSNIG [0] that's still > mounted to its hard drive PCB. Following the table from the raspberry pi > wiki page [1], and assuming the raspberry pi pin numbers it mentions are > physical pin numbers

Re: [flashrom] Problem while erasing chip prior write bin file.

2018-03-06 Thread Nico Huber
Hello Luca, On 06.03.2018 07:25, Luca Bacci Bonotti wrote: > I tried with chip soldered and unsoldered. Same results. same results? probably due to very different problems. Especially when the chip is not part of a circuitry (that might already take care), you have to connect all input pins of

Re: [flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

2018-03-06 Thread Vadim Bulst
Thanks Alex and I've tried BootUtil - but no luck. I've read the discription of BootUtil thanks to your link and found an important article: " * BootUtil is not intended as a utility for LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) implementations. Adjustments made to BootROM settings on LOM

Re: [flashrom] Problem while erasing chip prior write bin file.

2018-03-06 Thread Luca Bacci Bonotti
In your opinion is better the raspberry pi or ch341a to reach my goal? Should I buy a breadboard for create better connections ? Can you draw a schematic that I can follow? Il 6 mar 2018 21:55, "Nico Huber" ha scritto: > Hello Luca, > > On 06.03.2018 07:25, Luca Bacci Bonotti

Re: [flashrom] Flashrom innerworkings

2018-03-06 Thread Nico Huber
Hello Matthew, On 06.03.2018 18:33, Matthew Leon wrote: > Hello, > > I am interested in figuring out how flashrom writes to the flash, and where > I can find resources to write my own version of flashrom. flashrom supports a lot of different programmers and types of flash chips. You have to be

Re: [flashrom] Problem while erasing chip prior write bin file.

2018-03-06 Thread Nico Huber
On 06.03.2018 22:13, Luca Bacci Bonotti wrote: > In your opinion is better the raspberry pi or ch341a to reach my goal? I don't know. I doubt it makes much of a difference. If one fails, you can try the other. Though, the RPi is much faster. > > Should I buy a breadboard for create better

Re: [flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

2018-03-06 Thread Vadim Bulst
Hi Nico, i didn't tried. Well - i can give it another shot. But i think i won't be able because it is a LOM (NIC on Motherboard). Cheers, Vadim On 06.03.2018 21:30, Nico Huber wrote: Hello Vadim, On 06.03.2018 09:50, Vadim Bulst wrote: Dear list, I'm curious to know if it is possible to

Re: [flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

2018-03-06 Thread Vadim Bulst
Thanks Bill but i won't be able to track that down. Cheers, Vadim On 06.03.2018 19:52, Bill Paul wrote: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Alex Henderson had to walk into mine at 09:08 on Tuesday 06 March 2018 and say: Vadim: Usually programming the firmware

Re: [flashrom] Flashrom innerworkings

2018-03-06 Thread Nico Huber
On 06.03.2018 23:20, Matthew Leon wrote: > Hey Nico, > > I am talking about the internal programmer for a piix4 chipset. For the > read, I have gotten to spi_chip_read that returns > flash->mst->spi.read(flash,buf,start,len) and I am trying to figure out > where mst gets set, or how flashrom

Re: [flashrom] Some troubles connecting a W25X40ALSNIG flash chip to raspberry pi (v3 model B)

2018-03-06 Thread Jesse Li
Thank you! I swapped out my phone charger for my iPad's wall wart to power the raspberry pi, and I did some power-saving stuff like installing raspbian lite, disabling LEDs and radios, and accessing the pi via SSH rather than a monitor and HDMI. And it worked! The drive seems to be functioning

Re: [flashrom] Problem while erasing chip prior write bin file.

2018-03-06 Thread Luca Bacci Bonotti
Thanks a lot. I'll try and I'll let you know. Il 6 mar 2018 23:13, "Nico Huber" ha scritto: > On 06.03.2018 22:13, Luca Bacci Bonotti wrote: > > In your opinion is better the raspberry pi or ch341a to reach my goal? > > I don't know. I doubt it makes much of a difference. If one

Re: [flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

2018-03-06 Thread Alex Henderson
Vadim: Usually programming the firmware ROMs for Intel NICs requires software from Intel. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/05790/software/manageability-products.html may do the trick. Alex -Original Message- From: flashrom

[flashrom] Flashing iPXE on Intel i210 on Supermicro X11SSL-F

2018-03-06 Thread Vadim Bulst
Dear list, I'm curious to know if it is possible to flash iPXE to these nics. PCI-Id is listed in supported devices - 8086:1533 . [root@urzospoc01 src]# flashrom -p nicintel_eeprom:pci=01:00.0 flashrom v1.0 on Linux 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source