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AMD ROM Armor
by Nico Huber 26 Oct '25

26 Oct '25

Hi folks, I've written a small article about AMD ROM Armor [1], a new tech that basically hides the SPI flash controller on current AMD systems. Alas, it seems that AMD is pushing to not provide an opt-out for users :-/ This might limit flashprog support to systems with open-source firmware in the future. If anyone knows more about ROM Armor, please get in touch :) Cheers, Nico [1] https://icon.sourcearcade.org/posts/amd_firmware_reading/

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Internal flashing works on Intel Q87
by Ron Nazarov 10 Sep '25

10 Sep '25

I was successfully able to internally flash libreboot using flashprog on a Dell OptiPlex 9020 SFF (Intel Q87 chipset). A verbose log is attached, as requested.

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Intel H170 on GA-H170-HD3 - reading 'PROBLEMS, continuing anyway'
by Franck 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Hi, Tried to read bios from Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3. Flashprog reported 'PROBLEMS, continuing anyway'. Unsure if this means reading fully succeeded or not. FYI this motherboard has a dual bios. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H170-HD3-rev-10/ Attached are logs without & with verbose. Thanks, Franck Richter

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chipset "Intel Q87" untested - write succeeded
by Franck 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

Hi, Many thanks for Flashprog. I could successfully flash a Dell OptiPlex 9020 using it, to install libreboot. Internal flashing under linux using debian package (from unstable) flashprog v1.4. As requested in 'Found chipset "Intel Q87" with PCI ID 8086:8c4e. This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version of flashprog *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it, then please email a report to flashprog(a)flashprog.org including a verbose (-V) log.' please find attached the log for write, and also for read (of original Dell firmware, also internally done). Have a nice WE, Franck

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Thunderbolt EEPROM T480
by Osark Vieira 27 Jul '25

27 Jul '25

Reading EEPROM contents was not a problem, But when erasing such error occurs. flashprog p1.3-3-g8a27db9 on Linux 6.1.0-31-amd64 (x86_64) flashprog is free software, get the source code at https://flashprog.org Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). serprog: Programmer name is "pico-serprog" Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q80.V" (1024 kB, SPI) on serprog. Erasing flash chip... FAILED at 0x00002005! Expected=0xff, Found=0xdd, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x000fffff: 0x4b9 ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Please report this to the mailing list at flashprog(a)flashprog.org or on IRC (see https://www.flashprog.org/Contact for details), thanks! Any ideas?

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Flashing FAIL at 0x00000010
by Alex 14 Jun '25

14 Jun '25

Hello, I recently just tried to flash my thinkpad x220 with the seagrub_x220_8mb_libgfxinit_corebootfb_usqwerty.rom and ran into the following error. Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405" (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done. Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x00000010! Expected=0x5a, Found=0xad, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x007fffff: 0x15c6e4 Your flash chip is in an unknown state. I'm using the 20241206 rev11 rom. I'd appreciate any help for a fix. Thanks! Alex

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Flashprog to Remove Libreboot
by Dave Kenney 25 May '25

25 May '25

Hello , I've never used Flashprog. Not sure what version to download. My laptop is a Lenovo X-200 64 bit/ 8G ram Libreboot w/ Linux Mint 21.2 OS. Having issues w/ the Libreboot & want to erase. Please direct me to the proper version & any instructions for usage. I looked at the Man Flashprog pages but the -E , Erase command didn't help since I never got the application working. I need to flash the EC chip & remove so will : sudo apt update & sudo apt install flashprog in the terminal work, or are there other commands I should be using once the proper file is downloaded? Thank You, David

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[announce] flashprog v1.4 is out!
by Nico Huber 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

Hi, I'm glad to announce the release of flashprog v1.4. This time we've mostly updated the flash chip database, added 90 new entries and polished many existing ones. You can read more about it in the full release notes[1]. As usual, you can download the source via Git[2] (tag `v1.4`) or as tarball[3]. Cheers, Nico [1] https://flashprog.org/wiki/Flashprog/v1.4 [2] https://github.com/SourceArcade/flashprog [3] https://flashprog.org/releases/flashprog-v1.4.tar.bz2

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[announce] flashprog v1.3 released!
by Nico Huber 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

Hi all, there's a fresh flashprog v1.3 release out! This one brings some new CLI work to control write protection and other bits (quad-enable for now). It should give a good starting point to modernize the whole CLI. Also, the support for Intel chipsets was updated to include their latest platforms (Snow Ridge, Meteor, Lunar & Arrow Lake). Please see the full release notes[1] for more details. As usual, the code is available in Git[2] (tag `v1.3') and as a tarball[3]. Cheers, Nico [1] https://flashprog.org/wiki/Flashprog/v1.3 [2] https://github.com/SourceArcade/flashprog [3] https://flashprog.org/releases/flashprog-v1.3.tar.bz2

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flashprog v1.3-rc1 ready for testing
by Nico Huber 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

Hi all, in preparation for the v1.3 release, the first RC has been tagged. It's available through the Git tag `v1.3-rc1' and as tarball [1]. Please test! :) Most notable changes are support for newest Intel chipsets and a new CLI infrastructure. Which brings two special com- mand modes to configure SPI flash chips. Please see $ flashprog wp --help and $ flashprog config --help and the new man pages flashprog-write-protect(8) and flashprog-config(8). Feedback on these is particularly welcome. Cheers, Nico [1] https://flashprog.org/releases/flashprog-v1.3-rc1.tar.bz2

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