[LinuxBIOS] Please let me know the status for this chipset

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sun Oct 29 13:38:40 CET 2006


* Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> [061028 22:09]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:53:47AM +0100, Raffaele de Leon wrote:
> > Looks like great work here. I downloaded and built LinuxBIOS V2 solely to use flashrom, however when I executed the binary it went through all the probing and decided "no eeprom found", before promptly turning the computer off.
> 
> That sounds unlikely. Flashrom definately should _not_ turn off your
> computer.
 
Flash writes are protected by some GPIO magic here. I had a laptop once
that showed the same signs of madness.

The hardware vendor probably knows more ;-)

Stefan

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