Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV
This page describes how to run coreboot on the Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV desktop from Gigabyte.
Flashing coreboot
Type |
Value |
|---|---|
Socketed flash |
No |
Model |
MX25L3206E |
Size |
4 MiB |
In circuit flashing |
No |
Package |
SOIC-8 |
Write protection |
No |
Dual BIOS feature |
Yes |
Internal flashing |
Yes |
Internal programming
The main SPI flash can be accessed using flashrom. The DualBIOS backup flash
chip is accessible as well using the dualbiosindex programmer parameter.
Since the flash recovery mechanism works even with coreboot installed on the
main flash chip (it still restores the vendor UEFI though), it is useful to
leave the backup chip untouched.
Notes about the original firmware
The original IFD defines the BIOS region as the whole flash chip. While this is
not an issue if flashing a complete image, it confuses flashrom and trashes the
flash chip’s contents when using the --ifd option. A possible workaround is
to create a layout.txt file with a non-overlapping BIOS region:
00000000:00000fff fd
00180000:003fffff bios
00001000:0017ffff me
After that, use flashrom with the new layout file. For example, to create a
backup of the BIOS region and then flash a coreboot.rom, do:
sudo flashrom -p internal -l layout.txt -i bios -r backup.rom
sudo flashrom -p internal -l layout.txt -i bios -w coreboot.rom
Modifying the IFD so that the BIOS region does not overlap would work as well. However, this makes DualBIOS unable to recover from a bad flash for some reason.
Technology
Northbridge |
|
Southbridge |
bd82x6x |
CPU |
model_206ax |
SuperIO |
ITE IT8728F |
EC |
None |
Coprocessor |
Intel ME |