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Supports RS-232, USB serial converters (untested) and TCP streams.

The protocol specification is in serprog-protocol.txt

There will be tweaks to the code and maybe the protocol in the future,
so the API is not set in stone yet.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r656.
Signed-off-by: Urja Rannikko <urjaman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

This board is a VIA KM400 and VT8237 and IT8705F superio.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r655.
Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Scott Johnson <scott@gnuveau.net>

Without this, all reads after erase will return 0x80 instead of the real
memory contents.

Thanks to Michael Melcher for testing.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r654.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Michael Melcher <Michael.Melcher82@googlemail.com>

Some drivers support only a few combinations of read/write length and
return error otherwise. Having a distinct return code for this error
means we can handle it in upper layers.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r653.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>

GP51 is attached to both WP# and TBL#.

Made possible by the quick response of ITE when asked for information,
and the tenacious testing of Glenn Mueller.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r652.
Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Glenn Mueller <mechwarrior5@hotmail.com>

Tested-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r651.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Tested it on Epia-m700 worked okay.
Acked-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

Tested-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r650.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Jakob writes:
Tested it on my EPIA-m700 and it worked nice. Also double checked that
one of the changed functions actually ran.
Acked-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

The flashrom manpage currently says "-w, --write: Write file into flash
ROM (default when <file> is specified)". This is no longer true for recent
flashrom versions, which only write if you explicitly use the -w option.

Proof:

$ flashrom coreboot.rom
flashrom v0.9.0-r631
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
Found board "Kontron 986LCD-M", enabling flash write... OK.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL004" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.
No operations were specified.

Thus, fix manpage accordingly.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r649.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

Tested probing and reading only. The chip ID was already
in flashchips.h.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r648.
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Once the ICH/VIA SPI driver is converted to multicommand, a lot of hacks
can disappear.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r647.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Tested-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

If the parameter is set, the IT87* SPI driver will set the I/O base
port of the IT87* SPI controller interface to the port specified in the
parameter. Usage: flashrom -p it87spi=port=0x820

Corresponding to flashrom svn r646.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

Some SPI opcodes need to be sent in direct succession after each other
without any chip deselect happening in between. A prominent example is
WREN (Write Enable) directly before PP (Page Program). Intel calls the
first opcode in such a row "preopcode".

Right now, we ignore the direct succession requirement completely and it
works pretty well because most onboard SPI masters have a timing or
heuristics which make the problem disappear.
The FT2232 SPI flasher is different. Since it is an external flasher,
timing is very different to what we can expect from onboard flashers and
this leads to failure at slow speeds.

This patch allows any function to submit multiple SPI commands in a
stream to any flasher. Support in the individual flashers isn't
implemented yet, so there is one generic function which passes the each
command in the stream one-by-one to the command functions of the
selected SPI flash driver.
Tested-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r645.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

Set the user and group of all files to root for tar versions which
support it. Add explanatory comments for supporting that feature with
other tar versions.

Use LC_ALL instead of LANG everywhere.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r644.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>

Chip has now been properly tested in both my Jetway J7F5M and my EPIA-SP
(known good board). Erase and write fail. Mark these operations as bad
until i or someone else have time to fix this.

Reported by Arvid Brodin <arvidb@kth.se>.

M    flashchips.c

Corresponding to flashrom svn r643.
Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

Raise GPIO 16 on ICH9R LPC Interface.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r642.
Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Richie Ward <RichieS@GMail.com>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r641.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

 
 - Also print URLs of boards with board-enables.
 
 - Mark known-bad operations for chips red in the wiki.
 
 - Clarifiy a wiki message a bit.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r640.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

 - VIA EPIA-M700 (reported by Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>)
   http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-July/050416.html

 - GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P (reported by Warren Turkal <wt@penguintechs.org>)
   http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-June/050199.html

Mark as non-working:

 - ASUS Eee PC 701 4G (reported by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>)
   There seems to be some SPI flash translation layer, likey done by the
   embedded controller on the laptop (ENE KB3310).
   The BIOS chip in this Eee PC model is Winbond 25X40VSIG btw.
   More info: http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Research

Mark this chip as tested:

 - ST M25P40 (reported by Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>)
   http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-July/050416.html



Other:

 - Make the "Albatron PM266A" board detection print "Albatron PM266A*" as this
   enable will actually work for other PM266A* boards according to libv.
   However, the code was actually tested on "Albatron PM266A Pro".

 - Add some more board URLs / notes.

 - s/BioStar/Biostar/ as per vendor website.

 - Fix typo in print.c: s/A7V8-MX SE/A7V8X-MX SE/.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r639.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

B.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r638.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Tested-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker@gmail.com>

Thanks to Uwe for the suggestion.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r637.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

 - Properly escape '-' chars in manpage.
 
 - Fix typo in chipset_enable.c.

 - Drop useless 'return' in chip_readn().

 - Random other whitespace or cosmetic fixes.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r636.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r635.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

Also noted as a comment if an FWH/LPC chip supports A/A Mux mode.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r634.
Signed-off-by: Urja Rannikko <urjaman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

If the programmer didn't initialize correctly, it is pointless to
continue.

Fix standalone IT87* SPI init to set flashbus to NONE if no IT87* SPI
communication is possible. Print the I/O port detected by the IT87* SPI
code.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r633.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org>

Tested by Urja Rannikko with external flasher.
Tested by Uwe Hermann with onboard flash.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r632.
Signed-off-by: Urja Rannikko <urjaman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Urja Rannikko <urjaman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Should this be undesireable because of speed reasons, --noverify can be
used to suppress an auto-verify.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r631.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Harald Gutmann <harald.gutmann@gmx.net>

Since block erase functions do not know the block length (it's not
specified in any standard), block erase functions now get an additional
parameter blocklen. This enables flashrom to verify the erase result for
block erase functions at correct boundaries.

Tested by Uwe on SB600.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r630.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

The new abstraction can handle out-of-band chip communication protocols
as well. The old abstraction caused spurious false positives for erase
on SPI and spurious false negatives for verify on SPI.

Make verify_flash() use verify_range().

Tested by Uwe on SB600.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r629.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

A file is already specified directly in conjunction for -r/-w/-v.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r628.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

 - ASUS P5KC (reported by Andrei Pavlov <pavlov.andrei@rambler.ru>)
 
 - GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L (reported by Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>)
 
Add a few more URLs.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r627.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

Let %.o handle flashrom.o as well.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r626.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>

Supports RS-232, USB serial converters (untested) and TCP streams.

All functionality is stubbed out to allow multiplatform compile testing
of the headers we use.
The real serial flasher protocol driver will be committed next.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r625.
Signed-off-by: Urja Rannikko <urjaman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

This fixes compilation for them.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r624.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Guilloux <stephan.guilloux@free.fr>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>

Make a few local functions in sb600spi.c static.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r623.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>

Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the report.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r622.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Thanks to Simon Brown for the report.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r621.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Thanks to Harald Gutmann for testing.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r620.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Thanks to Wangji for testing and pointing out that EN25* chips were
unsupported, which was handled in r580 and r592.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r619.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Turns out that the GIGABYTE GA-7ZM _does_ work fine if you disable
the BIOS flash protection option _and_ remove jumper JP9 on the board
(d'oh!).

This board can decode 512 KB chips just fine (not just 256 KB).

Corresponding to flashrom svn r618.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>

The board can decode 256 KB only (i.e., not 512 KB) it seems.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r617.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>