RaspberryPi
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RaspberryPi is a cheap single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. It can run a fully-functional GNU/Linux distribution and exposes SPI, I2C and several GPIOs on its expansion header.
Prerequisites
You need to be running a kernel from Chris Boot which includes a proper SPI driver, grab it from http://www.bootc.net/projects/raspberry-pi-kernel/ (and do not forget to use the latest firmware from https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot). Beware, if just untarring, do not forget to do depmod appropriately.
Compiling flashrom
If you want to compile it from the sources, use the following line:
make CONFIG_INTERNAL=no CONFIG_RAYER_SPI=no CONFIG_NIC3COM=no CONFIG_GFXNVIDIA=no CONFIG_SATASII=no \ CONFIG_ATAHPT=no CONFIG_DRKAISER=no CONFIG_NICREALTEK=no CONFIG_NICNATSEMI=no \ CONFIG_NICINTEL=no CONFIG_NICINTEL_SPI=no CONFIG_OGP_SPI=no CONFIG_SATAMV=no
Connecting the flash chip
To learn more about the RPi's expansion header refer to http://elinux.org/Rpi_Low-level_peripherals . Please do not try to draw more than 50mA from the 3.3V pin.
| RPi header | SPI flash |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vcc 3.3V |
| 6 | GND |
| 19 | DI |
| 21 | DO |
| 23 | SCK |
| 24 | /CS |
Example output
paul@raspberrypi:~/flashrom$ time ./flashrom -r wr741nd-flash.bin -V -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0 flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1547 on Linux 3.2.21-rpi1+ (armv6l) flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org flashrom was built with GCC 4.6.3, little endian Command line (5 args): ./flashrom -r wr741nd-flash.bin -V -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0 Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 5 usecs, 210M loops per second, 10 myus = 11 us, 100 myus = 109 us, 1000 myus = 1237 us, 10000 myus = 10299 us, 20 myus = 37 us, OK. Initializing linux_spi programmer Using device /dev/spidev0.0 The following protocols are supported: SPI. ... Chip status register is 00 Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q32" (4096 kB, SPI) on linux_spi. ... Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q32" (4096 kB, SPI). This chip may contain one-time programmable memory. flashrom cannot read and may never be able to write it, hence it may not be able to completely clone the contents of this chip (see man page for details). Reading flash... done. 0.85user 0.66system 1:28.12elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 18976maxresident)k 0inputs+8192outputs (0major+1232minor)pagefaults 0swaps