When running "sudo flashrom" I gett the following output:
flashrom v0.9.1-r946 No coreboot table found. ======================================================================== WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on a 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 http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details. ======================================================================== Found chipset "VIA VT8235", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "SST SST39SF040" (512 KB, Parallel) at physical address 0xfff80000. === 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! === No operations were specified.
After this the keyboard and touchpad stops working. Also one of the thermal sensors stops working too. Plugging in a usb mouse allows me to shut down the laptop nicely tho.
From syslog after:
Apr 11 10:13:33 Ferry kernel: [ 488.402186] __ratelimit: 21 callbacks suppressed Apr 11 10:13:33 Ferry kernel: [ 488.402190] atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly. Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 490.588044] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424) Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 490.588076] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node f7010a50), AE_TIME Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 491.272032] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 491.272048] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424) Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 491.272076] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node f7010a50), AE_TIME Apr 11 10:13:38 Ferry kernel: [ 492.588031] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
Running "sudo flashrom" once more after reboot will cause the laptop to reboot immediately. Shutting down and removing power cable and battery resets the condition so "sudo flashrom" just disables keyboard/touchpad.
Running "sudo flashrom -r backup.rom" will cause the laptop to shut down immediately.
I read some abut making support for a laptop but it seemed a bit complicated for me.
/Magnus