Report: Acer Aspire V5-471 V2.17 read - flashrom

12 Oct 2013


      flashrom v0.9.7-r1711 on Darwin 13.0.0 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
flashrom was built with libpci 3.2.0, LLVM Clang 4.2 (clang-425.0.28), little endian
Command line (5 args): ~/Desktop/DPCIManager_ML/DPCIManager.app/Contents/MacOS/flashrom -VV -r ~/Desktop/Acer Aspire V5-471 V2.17.rom -p internal
Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 234M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 106 us, 1000 myus = 991 us, 10000 myus = 9661 us, 4 myus = 5 us, OK.
Initializing internal programmer
Mapping low megabyte at 0x0000000000000400, unaligned size 0xffc00.
Mapping low megabyte, 0xffc00 bytes at unaligned 0x0000000000000400.
No coreboot table found.
DMI string system-manufacturer: "Acer"
DMI string system-product-name: "Aspire V5-471"
DMI string system-version: "V2.17"
DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Acer"
DMI string baseboard-product-name: "Aspire V5-471"
DMI string baseboard-version: "V2.17"
DMI string chassis-type: "Laptop"
Laptop detected via DMI.
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: fc.
Please send the output of "flashrom -V" to 
flashrom@flashrom.org with W836xx: your board name: flashrom -V
as the subject to help us finish support for your Super I/O. Thanks.
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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 http://www.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.
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Aborting.
Error: Programmer initialization failed.