On Friday 30 November 2007 13:49, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 30.11.2007 05:25, Shocky wrote:
Now that I can build and run flashrom, I get:
Calibrating delay loop.. OK. No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "NVidia MCP51", enabling flash write... OK generic_spi_command called, but no SPI chipset detected No EEPROM/flash device found.
I see on the supported devices list that NVidia MCP55 is supported, but mine is "?". Anything I can do to help get it supported?
Why do you assume it is not supported?
Good point. I guess "?" means unknown. I guess the "Found chipset...OK" is encouraging.
I don't know what type of flash chip I have, or for that matter what type of
We need verbose output from flashrom.
Okay. See attached.
m/b. It's an HP Pavilion dv2412ca laptop. I haven't been able to figure out
Ah, a laptop. Laptops usually need additional tricks before they cooperare on the flash side. If verbose output from flashrom doesn't yield anything obvious, I suggest you don't try further.
That's not so encouraging 8^(. I'd really like to make this work, even if it requires some serious effort. The thought of reinstalling Vista just to be able to flash my BIOS just fills me with revulsion.
I am a developer. My expertise is not in C, and not in drivers, but I like to learn new skills.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
Shocky