Sorry if this is a flashrom noob question.
But I want to make sure that I understand correctly what your saying.
It sounds like this Renesas H8S2116
controller is something that nobody on the flashrom dev team has worked
on yet?
From reading your very fine and very
detailed web site (congrats on that BTW), specifically the section on adding
support for laptops "http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops"
it sounds like a little bit of a challenge to add support for a new chipset
like this? Is that a correct assumption on my part?
We've spoken with IBM and of course
all of their current stuff is DOS based / bootable from USB key. Of
course for a fee they would be willing to help us out and develop a Linux
based program to update the BIOS.....
Does anyone have thoughts on how much
time and effort it would take to do this? IBM is hardly ever the
cheapest solution, so I'm guessing we would more likely find a more reasonable
price from the Open Source community....
Thanks again for your assistance.
Jason Vannest
Information Technology - Store Systems
Abercrombie & Fitch
614-283-6363 (desk)
flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1515 on Linux 2.6.32.12-0.7-default (i686), built with
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585], little
endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution
is 1 usecs, 1774M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 102 us,
1000 myus = 1009 us, 10000 myus = 9982 us, 4 myus = 5 us, OK.
Initializing internal programmer
No coreboot table found.
DMI string system-manufacturer: "IBM CORPORATION"
DMI string system-product-name: "4800783"
DMI string system-version: "4800783"
DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "IBM CORPORATION"
DMI string baseboard-product-name: "P4M900/VT8251/DME1737"
DMI string baseboard-version: "<BAD INDEX>"
DMI string chassis-type: ""
DMI chassis-type is not specific enough.
The following protocols are supported:
Non-SPI.
So the chipset in your POS machine is, at the moment, not recognized by
flashrom.
No EEPROM/flash device found.
Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically.
According to this IBM web page [1] there is a "Service Processor Renesas
H8S2116" [2] present.