I suppose they better lock BIOS as they have all these TPM, remote support and other security features, although I have these turned off ;-)
thanks for the reply!
d.
On 6 October 2011 23:53, Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:51:03 +0300 Dima Tisnek dimaqq@gmail.com wrote:
root@quilt ~ # flashrom -Vr test.fw flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 3.0-ARCH (x86_64), built with libpci […] 0x54: 0x00000000 (FREG0: Flash Descriptor) 0x00000000-0x00000fff is read-only 0x58: 0x07ff0580 (FREG1: BIOS) 0x00580000-0x007fffff is read-write 0x5C: 0x057f0003 (FREG2: Management Engine) 0x00003000-0x0057ffff is locked 0x60: 0x00020001 (FREG3: Gigabit Ethernet) 0x00001000-0x00002fff is read-write 0x64: 0x00001fff (FREG4: Platform Data) Platform Data region is unused. […]
Reading flash... Transaction error! SSFS: SCIP=0, FDONE=1, FCERR=1, AEL=0 SSFC: SCGO=0, ACS=0, SPOP=0, COP=1, DBC=63, SME=0, SCF=4 Running OPCODE 0x03 failed at address 0x003000 (payload length was 64). Read operation failed! FAILED.
hello dima and thanks for your report!
a part of the flash is locked by the chipset and we are not able to unlock it (yet). in case you want to update the firmware please use the tools from intel, sorry. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner