Hello flashrom team,
Please find appended a problem report of a failed attempt at probing the flash on T530.
I would be happy to assist with testing and have means of recovering if the flash content should get corrupted.
It looks like flashrom currently can not even get to reading the flash on this model.
Regards, Nenad
[root@t530 flashrom-0.9.9]# ./flashrom -VV -p 'internal:mainboard=Lenovo:Thinkpad T530' flashrom v0.9.9-r1955 on Linux 4.7.9-200.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
flashrom was built with libpci 3.5.1, GCC 6.2.1 20160916 (Red Hat 6.2.1-2), little endian Command line (3 args): ./flashrom -VV -p internal:mainboard=Lenovo:Thinkpad T530 Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 3484M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 135 us, 1000 myus = 1146 us, 10000 myus = 10327 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK. Initializing internal programmer Found candidate at: 00000500-00000510 Found coreboot table at 0x00000500. Found candidate at: 00000000-00000a9c Found coreboot table at 0x00000000. coreboot table found at 0xbfef6000. coreboot header(24) checksum: d8fe table(2716) checksum: 8a9f entries: 24 Vendor ID: LENOVO, part ID: ThinkPad T530 Using Internal DMI decoder. DMI string chassis-type: "Laptop" Laptop detected via DMI. DMI string system-manufacturer: "LENOVO" DMI string system-product-name: "2394BF7" DMI string system-version: "ThinkPad T530" DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "LENOVO" DMI string baseboard-product-name: "2394BF7" DMI string baseboard-version: "ThinkPad T530" W836xx enter config mode worked or we were already in config mode. W836xx leave config mode had no effect. Active config mode, unknown reg 0x20 ID: 00. ======================================================================== WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported 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 the manpage and https://flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop and write may brick your laptop. Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight failure and sudden poweroff. You have been warned. ======================================================================== Aborting. Error: Programmer initialization failed. [root@t530 flashrom-0.9.9]#
[root@t530 flashrom-0.9.9]# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port [8086:0151] (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:0153] (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1502] (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1e12] (rev c4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1e14] (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller [8086:1e55] (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:1e03] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller [8086:1e22] (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [NVS 5400M] [10de:0def] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0bea] (rev a1) 02:00.0 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller [1180:e822] (rev 08) 02:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd Device [1180:e232] (rev 05) 02:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:e832] (rev 04) 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01) [root@t530 flashrom-0.9.9]#