[coreboot] Coreboot and HP Pavilion 6746C-L?

[theodore.preuninger at lycos.com]

On 2014-11-05 12:22, coreboot-request at coreboot.org wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:22:53 +0100
> From: Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com>
> To: coreboot <coreboot at coreboot.org>, Joseph Smith
> <joe at settoplinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Coreboot and HP Pavilion 6746C-L?
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> 2014-11-04 4:38 GMT+01:00 <theodore.preuninger at lycos.com>:
> 
>> Step 1 (or equal to step 1) and step 5 From 
>> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph05159&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=57589 
>> [1] Intel Socket 370 Pentium III Celeron i810
> 
> i810 might still work.
> Here's a photo of the board, with a close-up of the flash chip:
> http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/htIAAOSw7NNUJcHW/$_57.JPG [2]
> 
> You still need spare flash chips and a way to program them.
> See http://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#How_do_I_.28re-.29flash_the_BIOS.3F [3]
> 
> When you can program the chip you'll want to see console output, either
> over the serial or EHCI debug port.
> 
>> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Trigem Computer, Inc." DMI string 
>> baseboard-product-name: "Cognac" DMI string baseboard-version: "None" 
>> DMI string chassis-type: "Other" DMI chassis-type is not specific 
>> enough.
> 
> It actually is a desktop: blame the vendor or ODM for being lazy/lax 
> and
> not filling that in.
> 
>> Found ITE Super I/O, ID 0x8702 on port 0x2e
> 
> Unsupported as-is, but generic enough to configure it to send serial 
> output.
> 
>> ======================================================================== 
>> WARNING! You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. We 
>> could not detect this for sure because your vendor has not setup the 
>> SMBIOS tables correctly. You can enforce execution by adding '-p 
>> internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop' to the command line, but please 
>> read the following warning if you are not sure.
> 
> This one is easy to handle by yourself :)
> 
> Idwer

#1 Ok, so let me get this straight....

It is possible, but it requires opening up the case to getting to the
hardware - while the computer is on?

#2 Also is it worth it, considering from the risk?

Risk URL ID
http://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Can_I_do_any_serious_damage_mucking_around_with_this_stuff.3F


Thank you

Links:
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[1] 
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph05159&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=57589
[2] http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/htIAAOSw7NNUJcHW/$_57.JPG
[3] http://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#How_do_I_.28re-.29flash_the_BIOS.3F