[coreboot] flashrom claims T60 is unsupported

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 27.06.2015 15:20, Richard Simpson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have had partial success with flashing my T60.  After the first flash
> the laptop re-booted OK, but the screen is completely black.  Fiddling
> with the backlight buttons doesn't have any effect.  Fortunately, I can
> connect via ssh so I am not locked out.
>
> I believe that my mistake was to put my ATI VGA bios into coreboot
> rather than SeaBIOS.  I have now corrected this but I can't flash the
> updated version.  For the first flash I used the following command:
>
> ./flashrom/i686/flashrom_lenovobios_sst -p internal -w coreboot.rom
>
> I got loads of errors as mentioned in the instructions, but it seemed to
> work.  Since I now want to do another flash I have followed the
> instructions and used this simpler command:
>
> ./flashrom/i686/flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom
>
> I get the following error:
>
> flashrom v0.9.8-unknown on Linux 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> coreboot table found at 0xbfea0000.
> ========================================================================
> 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.
> ========================================================================
> Aborting.
> Error: Programmer initialization failed.
>
> I have tried flashrom, flashrom_lenovobios_sst and
> flashrom_lenovobios_macronix and get the same error every time.  I have
> also tried re-flashing the current working but blank screen bios and
> that won't go in either.
>
> Suggestions gratefully received.

flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w coreboot.rom

That should work.

Then take care of bucts again.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel