[flashrom] Flashrom -V output from Tyan S2915

[Anton Arapov]

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:43 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 04:02:59PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > On 23.07.2010 15:06, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > flashrom v0.9.2-r1099 on Linux 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.6, GCC 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10), little endian
> > > Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 999 usecs, 1406M loops per second, 10 myus = 0 us, 100 myus = 0 us, 1000 myus = 999 us, 10000 myus = 9999 us, 3996 myus = 3999 us, OK.
> > >   
> > 
> > It is highly unusual for a halfway modern Linux system to have a timer
> > resolution of 1 ms. Usually the Linux kernel will use a time source
> > which has 10 us accuracy or better. Is this some special distribution
> > kernel?
> 
> It's Fedora 13's standard kernel:
> 
> Linux amd.home.annexia.org 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 6 22:32:17 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I've attached the boot messages.
> 
> > > DMI string system-manufacturer: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not"
> > > DMI string system-product-name: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not"
> > > DMI string system-version: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not"
> > > DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not"
> > > DMI string baseboard-product-name: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not"
> > > DMI string baseboard-version: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not"
> > > DMI string chassis-type: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not"
> > >   
> > 
> > Now this is a serious problem. Apparently dmidecode in Fedora has a
> > patch in the RPM (dmidecode-warn-on-unsupported-smbios-version.patch)
> > which breaks the original documented output format. If this only
> > affected the board enables, it wouldn't be that bad (failing/corrupting
> > writes on a few dozen boards which can be fixed interactively), but it
> > also completely disables laptop detection and that means Fedora will get
> > bug reports about hard lockups and/or disabled fans on laptops.
> > I don't want to blame Fedora because this is a patch hand-picked from
> > upstream dmidecode. We'll add a workaorund to flashrom ASAP.
> 
> Nice ...
> 
> CC-ing the dmidecode maintainer in Fedora.
  Thanks for putting me in copy. I will update the dmidecode to
understand the new specification and take a look at the mentioned patch
to figure out how to handle the situation better.

thanks!
Anton.

> 
> Rich.
>