On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:25:09 +0100 Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:50:01 +0100 simon simon.riget@gmail.com wrote:
-I determined BIOS version by entering the BIOS setup.
-The flashrom version i'm using doesn’t support the -o option -Output didn't show any errors.
- Now I can't read the flashrom to file. Do you recommend using the -f
option?
#flashrom -p internal -r read2.rom -V
<output> flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-33-generic-pae (i686), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 2 usecs, 1185M loops per second, 10 myus = 11 us, 100 myus = 101 us, 1000 myus = 1030 us, 10000 myus = 10130 us, 8 myus = 10 us, OK. Initializing internal programmer No coreboot table found. DMI string system-manufacturer: "Elitegroup Co. " DMI string system-product-name: "i-Buddie " DMI string system-version: "1.0 " DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Elitegroup Co. " DMI string baseboard-product-name: "i-Buddie "
^^^^^^^^^DMI string baseboard-version: "2.0 " DMI string chassis-type: "Portable"
^^^^^^^^compare that to http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1442 while the DMI data is not directly read from flash, it is a clear sign that the BIOS has changed (the firmware sets up the DMI table in memory where flashrom reads it then). so flashrom clearly did work as intended, that's great.
because elitegroup changed the chassis type to "portable" flashrom thinks it is running on a laptop and bails out for safety reasons. you have to use -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick because of that until we whitelist that system in a future version, sorry.
i have prepared a patch to whitelist that laptop. it would be awesome if you could compile flashrom with the following line added to the big array in board_enable.c around line 2400, the exact line does not matter as long as it is somewhere inside the table {0x1039, 0x6325, 0x1019, 0x0f05, 0x1039, 0x0016, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, P2, "Elitegroup", "A928", 0, OK, p2_whitelist_laptop},
after adding that and recompiling, you should be able to use flashrom again without the laptop force switch (and i could rest assured that the patch works).