Add atapromise programmer
Supported controllers are Promise PDC20262 (FastTrak66/Ultra66),
PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100), PDC20267 (FastTrak100/Ultra100).
At least the Ultra100 only has address lines A0-A14 wired up, limiting
addressable chip size to 32 kB. The flash chips mounted on those
controllers usually is 128 kB, i.e. parts of the flash chip are
inaccessible. As a workaround, the driver implicitly truncates the
size of all flash chips to 32 kB. Works well for the factory installed
flash.
Do NOT use as a generic programmer for chips >32 kB.
Corresponding to flashrom svn r1916.
Signed-off-by: Joseph C. Lehner <joseph.c.lehner@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Urja Rannikko <urjaman@gmail.com>
diff --git a/flashrom.8.tmpl b/flashrom.8.tmpl
index 517c00e..5b6e63c 100644
--- a/flashrom.8.tmpl
+++ b/flashrom.8.tmpl
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@
.sp
.BR "* atavia" " (for flash ROMs on VIA VT6421A SATA controllers)"
.sp
+.BR "* atapromise" " (for flash ROMs on Promise PDC2026x ATA/RAID controllers)"
+.sp
.BR "* it8212" " (for flash ROMs on ITE IT8212F ATA/RAID controller)"
.sp
.BR "* ft2232_spi" " (for SPI flash ROMs attached to an FT2232/FT4232H/FT232H family \
@@ -636,7 +638,7 @@
.SS
.BR "nic3com" , " nicrealtek" , " nicnatsemi" , " nicintel", " nicintel_eeprom"\
, " nicintel_spi" , " gfxnvidia" , " ogp_spi" , " drkaiser" , " satasii"\
-, " satamv" , " atahpt", " atavia " and " it8212 " programmers
+, " satamv" , " atahpt", " atavia ", " atapromise " and " it8212 " programmers
.IP
These programmers have an option to specify the PCI address of the card
your want to use, which must be specified if more than one card supported
@@ -669,6 +671,13 @@
For more information please see
.URLB https://flashrom.org/VT6421A "its wiki page" .
.SS
+.BR "atapromise " programmer
+.IP
+This programmer is currently limited to 32 kB, regardless of the actual size of the flash chip. This stems
+from the fact that, on the tested device (a Promise Ultra100), not all of the chip's address lines were
+actually connected. You may use this programmer to flash firmware updates, since these are only 16 kB in
+size (padding to 32 kB is required).
+.SS
.BR "nicintel_eeprom " programmer
.IP
This is the first programmer module in flashrom that does not provide access to NOR flash chips but EEPROMs
@@ -1059,8 +1068,8 @@
.BR satasii ", " nicintel ", " nicintel_eeprom " and " nicintel_spi
need PCI configuration space read access and raw memory access.
.sp
-.B satamv
-needs PCI configuration space read access, raw I/O port access and raw memory
+.BR satamv " and " atapromise
+need PCI configuration space read access, raw I/O port access and raw memory
access.
.sp
.B serprog
@@ -1076,7 +1085,7 @@
needs no access permissions at all.
.sp
.BR internal ", " nic3com ", " nicrealtek ", " nicnatsemi ", "
-.BR gfxnvidia ", " drkaiser ", " satasii ", " satamv ", " atahpt" and " atavia
+.BR gfxnvidia ", " drkaiser ", " satasii ", " satamv ", " atahpt ", " atavia " and " atapromise
have to be run as superuser/root, and need additional raw access permission.
.sp
.BR serprog ", " buspirate_spi ", " dediprog ", " usbblaster_spi ", " ft2232_spi " and " pickit2_spi