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11 May 2009 11 May '09

10:34 p.m.

#134: flashrom crashes acer aspire one laptop -----------------------------------------------------------+---------------- Reporter: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…> | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: flashrom | Version: v2 Keywords: aspire laptop | Dependencies: Patchstatus: there is no patch | -----------------------------------------------------------+---------------- I ran the "flashrom" command on my acer aspire one laptop. The display turned black and the system did not respond to even sysrq after that. (Fortunately the system boots after powercycling.)

This is debian stable with flashrom package that has version "0.0+r3397-1".

-- Ticket URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/134 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/

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coreboot

11 May 11 May

11:04 p.m.

Comment(by Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…>):

superiotool r4029 No Super I/O found

-- Ticket URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/134#comment:1 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/

coreboot

11:18 p.m.

Comment(by Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…>):

Service manual says that this laptop has WPCE775L EC that talks LPC v1.0 and that the flash chips are behind it. Also on IRC I was adviced that

< carldani> lindi-: can you please add a small statement to the ticket which mentions the exact EC and that it translates LPC to SPI.

-- Ticket URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/134#comment:2 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/

coreboot

11:33 p.m.

New subject: #134: flashrom crashes systems with WPCE775L embedded controller on LPC bus (was: flashrom crashes acer aspire one laptop)

#134: flashrom crashes systems with WPCE775L embedded controller on LPC bus ------------------------------------------------------------+--------------- Reporter: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…> | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: flashrom | Version: Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: aspire laptop wpce775l ec embedded controller Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ------------------------------------------------------------+--------------- Changes (by stuge):

* keywords: aspire laptop => aspire laptop wpce775l ec embedded controller * status: new => closed * version: v2 => * resolution: => wontfix

Comment:

I looked for docs on the EC but found nothing. Until someone finds documentation for it, there's really nothing we can do. Please reopen when there is more information!

-- Ticket URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/134#comment:3 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/

coreboot

12 May 12 May

9:17 a.m.

New subject: #134: flashrom crashes systems with WPCE775L embedded controller on LPC bus

Comment(by anonymous):

Not that it helps but the nuvoton website says: "The WPCE775x family is pin-to-pin compatible drop-in replacement to the WPC876x family of devices, requiring only minor firmware changes."

-- Ticket URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/134#comment:4 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/

coreboot

11:36 a.m.

New subject: #134: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus (was: flashrom crashes systems with WPCE775L embedded controller on LPC bus)

#134: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus ------------------------------------------------------------+--------------- Reporter: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…> | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: flashrom | Version: Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: aspire laptop wpce775l ec embedded controller Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ------------------------------------------------------------+---------------

-- Ticket URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/134#comment:5 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/

coreboot

3 Jul 3 Jul

4:29 p.m.

New subject: #134: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus () (was: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus)

#134: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus () ------------------------------------------------------------+--------------- Reporter: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…> | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: flashrom | Version: Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: aspire laptop wpce775l ec embedded controller Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ------------------------------------------------------------+---------------

Comment(by uwe):

Replying to [comment:2 Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…>]:

...

Service manual says that this laptop has WPCE775L EC that talks LPC v1.0

and that the flash chips are behind it. Also on IRC I was adviced that

...

< carldani> lindi-: can you please add a small statement to the ticket

which mentions the exact EC and that it translates LPC to SPI.

Hi, can you please tell us (just for reference) which Acer Aspire One model this is exactly? It seems there are multiple laptops/netbooks that are called Aspire One.

(we want to fix the string in the list of non-supported laptops at http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom#Supported_laptops.2Fnotebooks)

Thanks!

-- Ticket URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/134#comment:6 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/

coreboot

22 Jul 22 Jul

11:11 p.m.

New subject: #134: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus ()

#134: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus () --------------------------------------------------------------+------------- Reporter: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…> | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: reopened Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: flashrom (please use trac on flashrom.org) | Resolution: Keywords: aspire laptop wpce775l ec embedded controller | Dependencies: Patch Status: there is no patch | --------------------------------------------------------------+------------- Changes (by hailfinger):

* status: closed => reopened * resolution: wontfix =>

Comment:

Could you please try to run superiotool again? The latest revision (r5667) has support for your EC and should work (unless the laptop manufacturer reconfigured the EC to listen on another address).

Besides that, flashrom (0.9.2 or later) should detect that it is running on a laptop and abort immediately before anything bad can happen. We plan to whitelist some laptops eventually, but for now we're going the safe route. If flashrom does not detect your laptop as laptop, please file a new bug at http://www.flashrom.org/trac/flashrom/newticket

I have reopened this ticket for now to keep it active until we know if superiotool works for you.

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coreboot

23 Jul 23 Jul

10:17 a.m.

New subject: #134: flashrom crashes systems with WPC876x/WPCE775x embedded controller on LPC bus ()

Comment (by Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@…>):

Hmm, should tracker.coreboot.org sent me email about all these comments? I can't find any of them from my procmail.log.

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