Thanks for the try, but the laptop shut it self down while I was asleep. And it's a brick now. Shit happens, first time I managed to kill a main-board in those 17 years I've worked with computers.
A patch that changed this output would have been better if it was already in place when I tested it:
=== This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE Please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -rV, -wV, -EV) , and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested. Thanks for your help! +WARNING! DON'T DO A "flashrom -EV" ON A LAPTOP THO, SINCE IT MIGHT TURN IT INTO A BRICK! ===
Cheers
2010/4/12 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net:
--force may have been a good idea back when only developers were using flashrom, but over the last few months I've seen too many people who incorrectly believed that --force would solve anything.
One of the problems is that --force has multiple meanings:
- Force chip read by faking probe success.
- Force writing even if cbtable tells us that this is the wrong image
for this board.
- Force chip access even if the chip is bigger than max decode size for
the flash bus.
- Force erase even if erase is known bad.
- Force write even if write is known bad.
We should kill --force and replace it with explicit --force-erase or --force-cbtable-mismatch or similar stuff, maybe -p internal:ignore_cbtable.
First step:
- Remove any suggestions to use --force for probe/read from flashrom output.
- Don't talk about "success" or "Found chip" if the chip is forced.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net
Index: flashrom-forced_stupid/cli_classic.c
--- flashrom-forced_stupid/cli_classic.c (Revision 992) +++ flashrom-forced_stupid/cli_classic.c (Arbeitskopie) @@ -303,6 +303,18 @@ cli_classic_usage(argv[0]); }
- if (chip_to_probe) {
- for (flash = flashchips; flash && flash->name; flash++)
- if (!strcmp(flash->name, chip_to_probe))
- break;
- if (!flash || !flash->name) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Error: Unknown chip specified.\n");
- exit(1);
- }
- /* Clean up after the check. */
- flash = NULL;
- }
if (programmer_init()) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: Programmer initialization failed.\n"); exit(1); @@ -329,14 +341,10 @@ } else if (!flashes[0]) { printf("No EEPROM/flash device found.\n"); if (!force || !chip_to_probe) {
- printf("If you know which flash chip you have, and if this version of flashrom\n");
- printf("supports a similar flash chip, you can try to force read your chip. Run:\n");
- printf("flashrom -f -r -c similar_supported_flash_chip filename\n");
- printf("\n");
- printf("Note: flashrom can never write when the flash chip isn't found automatically.\n");
- printf("Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically.\n");
} if (force && read_it && chip_to_probe) {
- printf("Force read (-f -r -c) requested, forcing chip probe success:\n");
- printf("Force read (-f -r -c) requested, pretending the chip is there:\n");
flashes[0] = probe_flash(flashchips, 1); if (!flashes[0]) { printf("flashrom does not support a flash chip named '%s'.\n", chip_to_probe); Index: flashrom-forced_stupid/flashrom.c =================================================================== --- flashrom-forced_stupid/flashrom.c (Revision 992) +++ flashrom-forced_stupid/flashrom.c (Arbeitskopie) @@ -924,7 +924,8 @@ if (!flash || !flash->name) return NULL;
- printf("Found chip "%s %s" (%d KB, %s) at physical address 0x%lx.\n",
- printf("%s chip "%s %s" (%d KB, %s) at physical address 0x%lx.\n",
- force ? "Assuming" : "Found",
flash->vendor, flash->name, flash->total_size, flashbuses_to_text(flash->bustype), base);
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