# sudo flashrom -V -p internal flashrom v0.9.8-r1888 on Linux 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
flashrom was built with libpci 3.3.0, GCC 4.9.2 20150204 (prerelease), little endian Command line (3 args): flashrom -V -p internal Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 2658M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 125 us, 1000 myus = 1012 us, 10000 myus = 9948 us, 4 myus = 15 us, OK. Initializing internal programmer No coreboot table found. Using Internal DMI decoder. DMI string chassis-type: "Portable" Laptop detected via DMI. DMI string system-manufacturer: "Dell Inc. " DMI string system-product-name: "Inspiron 7437" DMI string system-version: "Not Specified" DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Dell Inc. " DMI string baseboard-product-name: " " DMI string baseboard-version: " " W836xx enter config mode worked or we were already in config mode. W836xx leave config mode had no effect. Active config mode, unknown reg 0x20 ID: fc. Please send the output of "flashrom -V -p internal" to flashrom@flashrom.org with W836xx: your board name: flashrom -V as the subject to help us finish support for your Super I/O. Thanks. ======================================================================== WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. See the manpage and http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop and write may brick your laptop. Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight failure and sudden poweroff. You have been warned. ======================================================================== Aborting. Error: Programmer initialization failed.