Hi,
I sucessfully flash my BIOS using flashrom, but warning apear. See attachement - there is output from "flashrom -V".
studio@studio:~$ sudo dmidecode -t baseboard # dmidecode 2.9 SMBIOS 2.4 present.
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: M720-US3 Version: Serial Number:
If you need some more info simply ask. BTW. great APP ;-)
Best Regards XJ
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:19:37 +0200 "Grim Reaper" xj@wp.pl wrote:
Hi,
I sucessfully flash my BIOS using flashrom, but warning apear. See attachement - there is output from "flashrom -V".
hello and thanks for your report!
i have added the GA-M720-US3 to our list of supported boards and will commit it later. you are using a pretty outdated version of flashrom. before you try it on other boards consider upgrading/building it yourself please: http://flashrom.org/Downloads#Installation_from_source regarding the "warning": i am not sure about the current state of our nvidia support, but as long as it works (i.e. verifies at the end), there is no reason for concern :)
ps: please don't compress logs sent to our ml in the future. it is easier for us to search through the mail archives that way.
OK no problem.
BTW. I used flashrom from standard Ubuntu repository (in this case this was ubuntu-studio). Maybe package maintainer should update it. don't know who it is , maybe one of you ;-) ? Once again great work, update Bios from running system is much more flexible than standard solution. Why baseboard producers not support you ?
Dnia 4-07-2011 o godz. 9:44 Stefan Tauner napisał(a):
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:19:37 +0200 "Grim Reaper" xj@wp.pl wrote:
Hi,
I sucessfully flash my BIOS using flashrom, but warning apear. See
attachement - there is output from "flashrom -V".
hello and thanks for your report!
i have added the GA-M720-US3 to our list of supported boards and will commit it later. you are using a pretty outdated version of flashrom. before you try it on other boards consider upgrading/building it yourself please: http://flashrom.org/Downloads#Installation_from_source regarding the "warning": i am not sure about the current state of our nvidia support, but as long as it works (i.e. verifies at the end), there is no reason for concern :)
ps: please don't compress logs sent to our ml in the future. it is easier for us to search through the mail archives that way. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
Best Regards XJ
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:02:07 +0200 "Grim Reaper" xj@wp.pl wrote:
OK no problem.
BTW. I used flashrom from standard Ubuntu repository (in this case this was ubuntu-studio). Maybe package maintainer should update it. don't know who it is , maybe one of you ;-) ? Once again great work, update Bios from running system is much more flexible than standard solution. Why baseboard producers not support you ?
jup, we are aware of that. there will be a newer version in 11.10, see http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=flashrom&searchon=all&sui... we don't have a dedicated ubuntu maintainer (yet), but rely on ubuntu automatically pulling new versions from debian (which they do for every ubuntu release). the debian maintainer is "one of us": uwe hermann
ad vendors... well there are some that use flashrom internally or even redistribute it to their customers. feel free to mail gigabyte and ask them why they do not, nor providing us necessary documentation to support their boards :)
some vendors will probably state some security concerns. having an easy way to install backdoors into the firmware of PCs is of course frightening to them. they need to learn about security by obscurity then... but even if they do have some signature-based security in place (i.e. firmwares are only used when they can be verified by a hardware-based signature) - such as newer intel chipsets seem to at least partially offer - there might be economic reasons why they would not like to support us. for example because they don't think there are enough non-windows customers to justify investing some money to help us.
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Stefan Tauner