Flashrom problem

[Collin Gregory]

Hello everyone,

I'm a newbies in coreboot installation but not in linux, hopefully :)
When i'm launching flashrom, i get this error message :

Can't mmap memory using /dev/mem : Invalid ARgument ...

Does anyone knows what does it means ?

My motherboard is the D945gclf with these technical informations :

- Soldered-down Intel(R) Atom(R) processor 230 with a 533 MHz system bus
- Intel(R) 945GC Chipset, consisting of:
• Intel(R) 82945GC Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)
 • Intel(R) 82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7)
 - Realtek* ALC662 for the sound chipset
- Intel(R) GMA950 onboard graphics subsystem Video
- SMSC LPC47M997 based Legacy I/O controller for hardware management,
serial, parallel, and PS/2* ports
- Realtek RTL8102EL LAN adapter device

Thanks for your help !!!!

Greg

[Myles Watson]

> From the comment in flashrom.c, it looks like flashrom is trying to allocate

memory smaller than a page, and failing.  It would be helpful if you posted
your command line and the complete output.  Probably the output of
./flashrom -V too.

Thanks,

Myles

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Subject: [coreboot] Flashrom problem

Hello everyone,

I'm a newbies in coreboot installation but not in linux, hopefully :)
When i'm launching flashrom, i get this error message :

Can't mmap memory using /dev/mem : Invalid ARgument ...

Does anyone knows what does it means ?

My motherboard is the D945gclf with these technical informations :

- Soldered-down IntelR AtomR processor 230 with a 533 MHz system bus
- IntelR 945GC Chipset, consisting of:

. IntelR 82945GC Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)

. IntelR 82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7)

- Realtek* ALC662 for the sound chipset
- IntelR GMA950 onboard graphics subsystem Video
- SMSC LPC47M997 based Legacy I/O controller for hardware management,
serial, parallel, and PS/2* ports
- Realtek RTL8102EL LAN adapter device

Thanks for your help !!!!

Greg

[Peter Stuge]

Collin Gregory wrote:
> When i'm launching flashrom, i get this error message :
>
> Can't mmap memory using /dev/mem : Invalid ARgument ...
>
> Does anyone knows what does it means ?

Need more information.

Please provide the output from:

strace flashrom
> My motherboard is the D945gclf with these technical informations:

Me and Stefan just bought this board. Unfortunately it only has one
DIMM slot so it will not work right.. :\
> SMSC LPC47M997 based Legacy I/O controller for hardware
> management, serial, parallel, and PS/2* ports

I'm also curious about exactly what this chip does. It's unrelated to
flashrom, but some SMSC superios are horrible.

//Peter

[Collin Gregory]

Dear pete,

here comes with this email, the output of strace flashrom.

Hope it will help !
I'm informatician also, but i didn't study the project, but if i could help
.. :)

2008/10/31 Peter Stuge
> Collin Gregory wrote:
> > When i'm launching flashrom, i get this error message :
> >
> > Can't mmap memory using /dev/mem : Invalid ARgument ...
> >
> > Does anyone knows what does it means ?
>
> Need more information.
>
> Please provide the output from:
>
> strace flashrom
> > My motherboard is the D945gclf with these technical informations:
>
> Me and Stefan just bought this board. Unfortunately it only has one
> DIMM slot so it will not work right.. :\
> > SMSC LPC47M997 based Legacy I/O controller for hardware
> > management, serial, parallel, and PS/2* ports
>
> I'm also curious about exactly what this chip does. It's unrelated to
> flashrom, but some SMSC superios are horrible.
>
> //Peter