FAILED update: Swanky Baytrail

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Hi, all.

I’ve emailed (> flashom) details of a failed firmware update, but am posting here, in case it helps others.

I attempted the update today, 12 Dec 24, on a Toshiba laptop that I’ve already changed from stock firmware, and have updated several times, in the past.

Can you tell me what you may need, to help troubleshoot this?

My machine:

System:
Host: swanky Kernel: 6.12.4-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: GOOGLE product: Swanky v: 1.0 serial: 5F239563C
Mobo: GOOGLE model: Swanky v: 1.0 serial: N/A UEFI: coreboot
v: MrChromebox-4.22.4 date: 04/16/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.1 Wh (97.6%) condition: 33.9/44.2 Wh (76.7%)
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Celeron N2840 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 1024 KiB

The command I used, today:

[chris@swanky ~]$ cd; curl -LO mrchromebox.tech/firmware-util.sh && sudo bash firmware-util.sh

Some of the output:

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).
Skipping writeprotect-based unlocking for read/verify operations.
Block protection is disabled.
Reading ich descriptor… read_flash: region (00000000…0x7fffff) is readable, reading range (00000000…0x000fff).
done.
Assuming chipset ‘Baytrail’.
Added layout entry 00000000 - 00000fff named fd
Added layout entry 00200000 - 007fffff named bios
Added layout entry 00001000 - 001fffff named me
Using region: “bios”.
coreboot last image size (not ROM size) is 8388608 bytes.
Manufacturer: Google
Mainboard ID: Swanky
This coreboot image matches this mainboard.
spi_read_register: read from register 2 not supported by programmer

I hope this helps,

Chris (chris_debian)

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“some of the output” doesn’t help, the log is saved to /tmp/flashrom.log, please attach it here or upload to paste.flashrom.org

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Thanks, @MrChromebox. That was meant to give a flavour of the messages; as I said above, “Can you tell me what you may need, to help troubleshoot this?”.

Thanks for confirming the pastebin, I’ll try to submit that now. Apologies for missing that in the error message output in the ChromeBook.

Chris

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Well, I left the laptop on overnight, and some conscientious person turned off the power, at the wall. The laptop is now bricked…a job for the weekend :frowning:

Chris