[coreboot] flashrom not working - asus p5q (ICH10R)

[Corey Osgood]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:

> Hi Thomas!
>
> Thomas Prochaska wrote:
> > today i tried the flashrom utility from coreboot-v2 svn trunk.
> > this is the output:
> > -----
> > fin at xiix:~$ sudo flashrom
> > Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> > Can't mmap memory using /dev/mem: Invalid argument
> > -----
> >
> > therefore i want to ask you if my chipset is unsupported.
> > maybe you can shed some light on this.
> >
> > my system:
> > asus p5q
> > debian/gnu linux (sid) (debian standard kernel 2.6.26.1, customized
> > vanilla 2.6.28-rc8)
> >
> > i tested it with both kernels and got same results.
>
> Please check that CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set in your kernel
> configuration. If it is set (I believe at least debian has it set)
> flashrom can not work properly.


Debian testing at least does not, but his customized vanilla kernel might ;)

-Corey


>
>
>
> > also i wanted to ask if it's possible to support this motherboard
> > if i help you and test stuff and so on.
>
> Yes, it should be possible to support your board. ASUS has had tricky
> board enables in the past, but hopefully yours isn't one of them.
>
>
> //Peter
>
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