just talking to myselv, but here are some more detailed informations including a backtrace of flashrom: i removed stripping and optimisation, but added the debug flag in makefile.
benchvice flashrom # file flashrom flashrom: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, statically linked, not stripped benchvice flashrom # gdb ./flashrom GNU gdb 6.6 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run --mainboard gigabyte:m57sli -V -w /home/hg87/src/linuxbios/buildrom-devel/linuxbios.rom Starting program: /home/hg87/src/linuxbios/LinuxBIOSv3/util/flashrom/flashrom --mainboard gigabyte:m57sli -V -w /home/hg87/src/linuxbios/buildrom-devel/linuxbios.rom Calibrating delay loop... 348M loops per second. ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55": Enabling flash write... OK. Found board "GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI": Enabling flash write... Serial flash segment 0xfffe0000-0xffffffff enabled Serial flash segment 0x000e0000-0x000fffff enabled Serial flash segment 0xffee0000-0xffefffff disabled Serial flash segment 0xfff80000-0xfffeffff enabled LPC write to serial flash enabled serial flash pin 29 OK. Probing for Am29F040B, 512 KB probe_29f040b: id1 0xff, id2 0xff Probing for Am29F016D, 2048 KB probe_29f040b: id1 0xff, id2 0xff Probing for AE49F2008, 256 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xff, id2 0xff Probing for At29C040A, 512 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xff, id2 0xff Probing for At29C020, 256 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xff, id2 0xff Probing for Mx29f002, 256 KB probe_29f002: id1 0xff, id2 0xff Probing for MX25L4005, 512 KB RDID returned c2 20 13 probe_spi: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2013 MX25L4005 found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is MX25L4005 (512 KB) LinuxBIOS last image size (not rom size) is 4096 bytes. MANUFACTURER: GIGABYTE MAINBOARD ID: m57sli This firmware image matches this motherboard.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #1 0x00000000004068f4 in main (argc=6, argv=0x7fff7540a148) at flashrom.c:460 (gdb) c Continuing.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. The program no longer exists. (gdb) quit benchvice flashrom #