[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard MAX with Dediprog em100 pro SPI emulator

[Darren Hart]

On 1/8/15, 7:40 PM, "Simon Glass" <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>On 7 January 2015 at 18:47, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 12/27/2014 04:54 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> On 26 December 2014 at 23:08, John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>>> <warthog19 at eaglescrag.net> wrote:
>>>> I wouldn't be able to tell you how to get an EM100 to work, as I only
>>>> use the SF100 & flashtool (recompiled for dediprog, and with a patch
>>>>to
>>>> support the newer firmware on my specific dediprog) (As a note any spi
>>>> flash programmer should work once it's been level converted to 1.8v).
>>>>
>>>> Doing a quick reading here the EM100 is a SPI flash emulator for
>>>> external parts, I.E. it's not really a programmer per-se, but intended
>>>> to be a device that takes the place of the primary flash part (if I'm
>>>> reading the descriptions wrong, please correct me).
>>>>
>>>> My understanding is that no boards have been explicitly modified to
>>>>use
>>>> this emulator, and that the firmware team (at least inside Intel that
>>>> produces the firmware on uefidk) use flashers like the SF100 and
>>>>develop
>>>> directly on the actual board w/ the built-in flash chip.
>>>>
>>>> A quick look through the docs for the dediprog led me to:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>http://www.dediprog.com/save/633.pdf/to/EM100Pro%20Hardware%20Connectio
>>>>n_V2.0.pdf
>>>>
>>>> page 15
>>>>
>>>> I'd need to go dig back through the schematic (and possibly the
>>>>gerbers)
>>>> to figure out what exactly pins 7 and 8 on the J1 header go to to give
>>>> you a clear indication of what's going on there, and I won't be able
>>>>to
>>>> get to that till next year (those are both open though if someone else
>>>> wants to go digging to fill out that information on the wiki)
>>>>
>>>> If you do get this working it might be useful to document on the wiki!
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info. I did a bit of digging and found the Minnowboard
>>> MAX schematic. It shows that it can either connect the CPU to the SPI
>>> flash or the SPI flash to the external SPI pins. It cannot connect the
>>> CPU to the external SPI pins (note I am not a hardware engineer).
>>>
>>> So it seems to be impossible, except by unsoldering the flash chip,
>>> replacing it with a pin header. I'll have to have a rethink about how
>>> keen I am to fiddle with the board, as by soldering skills are poor!
>>>
>>> Or maybe the SF100-based development isn't as slow as I think?
>>>
>>> Also re the SF100/SF600 - are these well supported on Linux? I can
>>> only see Windows drivers on the Dediprog site.
>>
>> I use flashrom under Linux, you will likely need to compile it yourself,
>> and if you have a newer SF100 the newer firmware needs a patch in
>> flashrom to work (haven't looked recently if it's been integrated).  If
>> people want/need I can push my tree up onto github.
>
>Yes it didn't work for me - no support. If you can point me to the
>patch that would be interesting.

Did you compile flashrom yourself with the dediprog support configured in?
It's off by default and off in all the distributions I am aware of
(unfortunately).

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center