Hi Jordan, On 17.04.2018 14:40, Jordan Hill wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a Dell Inspiron 5559 Laptop which contains a Winbond 25Q128FVSQ > Chip. I tried running flashrom natively on the laptop and got the usual EC > warning so i stopped there. I then desoldered the SMD chip off the > motherboard and hooked it up to a RPI and connected it through the SPI > protocol. Flashrom then recognized it as a "Generic" flash chip and would > not allow the data to be read as it was still unrecognized.
did you connect all input pins of the flash chip? A common error is to leave /HOLD and /WP floating. But they need a defined state. /HOLD has to be pulled up (towards VCC). /WP up too (might as well be down depen- ding on the chip's configuration, but up always works). Nico _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
