on 30/01/2009 02:39 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger said the following:
On 29.01.2009 13:45, Andriy Gapon wrote:
Sorry for top posting. flashrom stopped working for me on intel DG33TL motherboard since I reported success. In the quoted older message below you can find what flashrom reported then, here is what it reports now:
Ah yes. You're hitting the problem that the "read" opcode is prohibited by the BIOS. Older flashrom versions ignored that and simply read the memory-mapped contents near the top of the address space. These dumps were incomplete, though, so in a way claiming to have dumped the ROM was a bug. The new code tries to get it right and hits the roadblock erected by the BIOS.
There's nothing we can do to fix it unless we discover a bug in the hardware (or implement the descriptor mode driver for ICH).
Thank you for the information. I noticed that the image that older flashrom produced was less than half a size of Intel's rescue image. I think that it still should be possible to unlock the hardware via software (or something like that), because Intel has a tool that updates BIOS from within OS (you guessed it right - available only for Windows).