[flashrom] FLASHROM fails on my AM1 Kabinis with

[Branko Badrljica]

I'm in dire need te reflash a couple of BIOS chips.


Unfotunately, all my boards which I used to use for this purpose are
rebellign against me.


I have a couple of Kabinis ( Athlon 5370) on cheap AM1 boards and have
noticed that "flashrom -p internal" fails on each one with

"Found chipset AMD FCH"

"Enabling flash write... ERROR: State of SpiAccesMacRomEn or
SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access"

At first, I thot that I might have miscompiled something in the kernel
or that flashrom doesn't jive with my Hardened Gentoo or something like
that. So I used Kali Linux and burned it toUSB stick ( it has flasrom
packaged).


With the exactly the same end result.

I've tried git version and versions 0.98 and 0.99. Older one ( 0.96 ?)
compained that it doesn't know Kabini's chipset...

THis HW used to work with flashrom. What changed ?

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:55:32 +0200

Post by Branko Badrljica
I'm in dire need te reflash a couple of BIOS chips.
Unfotunately, all my boards which I used to use for this purpose are
rebellign against me.
I have a couple of Kabinis ( Athlon 5370) on cheap AM1 boards and have
noticed that "flashrom -p internal" fails on each one with
"Found chipset AMD FCH"
"Enabling flash write... ERROR: State of SpiAccesMacRomEn or
SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access"
At first, I thot that I might have miscompiled something in the kernel
or that flashrom doesn't jive with my Hardened Gentoo or something like
that. So I used Kali Linux and burned it toUSB stick ( it has flasrom
packaged).
With the exactly the same end result.
I've tried git version and versions 0.98 and 0.99. Older one ( 0.96 ?)
compained that it doesn't know Kabini's chipset...
THis HW used to work with flashrom. What changed ?

Hi,

possibly a firmware update that set one of the two bits mentioned by
flashrom's output. Can you please post a complete verbose log file (e.g.
by adding "-o logfile.txt" to the command line)?

[Branko Badrljica]

Here it is.

Post by Stefan Tauner
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:55:32 +0200

Post by Branko Badrljica
I'm in dire need te reflash a couple of BIOS chips.
Unfotunately, all my boards which I used to use for this purpose are
rebellign against me.
I have a couple of Kabinis ( Athlon 5370) on cheap AM1 boards and have
noticed that "flashrom -p internal" fails on each one with
"Found chipset AMD FCH"
"Enabling flash write... ERROR: State of SpiAccesMacRomEn or
SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access"
At first, I thot that I might have miscompiled something in the kernel
or that flashrom doesn't jive with my Hardened Gentoo or something like
that. So I used Kali Linux and burned it toUSB stick ( it has flasrom
packaged).
With the exactly the same end result.
I've tried git version and versions 0.98 and 0.99. Older one ( 0.96 ?)
compained that it doesn't know Kabini's chipset...
THis HW used to work with flashrom. What changed ?

Hi,
possibly a firmware update that set one of the two bits mentioned by
flashrom's output. Can you please post a complete verbose log file (e.g.
by adding "-o logfile.txt" to the command line)?

[Mike Banon]

By the way: please check if your AM1 boards support the coreboot open
source BIOS
(sister project of flashrom), that could significantly increase the
value of your AM1 boards.

Post by Branko Badrljica
Here it is.

Post by Stefan Tauner
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:55:32 +0200

Post by Branko Badrljica
I'm in dire need te reflash a couple of BIOS chips.
Unfotunately, all my boards which I used to use for this purpose are
rebellign against me.
I have a couple of Kabinis ( Athlon 5370) on cheap AM1 boards and have
noticed that "flashrom -p internal" fails on each one with
"Found chipset AMD FCH"
"Enabling flash write... ERROR: State of SpiAccesMacRomEn or
SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access"
At first, I thot that I might have miscompiled something in the kernel
or that flashrom doesn't jive with my Hardened Gentoo or something like
that. So I used Kali Linux and burned it toUSB stick ( it has flasrom
packaged).
With the exactly the same end result.
I've tried git version and versions 0.98 and 0.99. Older one ( 0.96 ?)
compained that it doesn't know Kabini's chipset...
THis HW used to work with flashrom. What changed ?

Hi,
possibly a firmware update that set one of the two bits mentioned by
flashrom's output. Can you please post a complete verbose log file (e.g.
by adding "-o logfile.txt" to the command line)?

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