[flashrom] W836xx: Avalue ECM-QM87: flashrom -V

[deimos at austin.rr.com]

Hi,

Thank you for your assistance.

Please find the error report at bottom.

Board: Avalue ECM-QM87 with AMI uEFI BIOS,128 Mbit SPI Flash ROM.
http://www.avalue.com.tw/en/product/detail.aspx?ccid=2&cid=8&id=14&zid=837

Test was performed using CentOS7 LiveCD (CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-livecd.iso)

Exact steps:
mkdir -p /BIOS/FlashRom
cd /BIOS/FlashRom
yum install zlib*
yum install svn
svn co svn://flashrom.org/flashrom/trunk flashrom
yum install libpci*
yum install pciutils*
yum install gcc
cd /BIOS/FlashRom/flashrom
make
cd ../../
cp FlashRom/flashrom/flashrom flashrom_QM87_CentOS7
./flashrom_QM87_CentOS7 --programmer internal --force -r QM87_test1.bin

Please let me know if you need any additional info.

Best regards.

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= Error report =
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[root at localhost BIOS]# ./flashrom_QM87_CentOS7 -V -p internal
flashrom v0.9.7-r1850 on Linux 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

flashrom was built with libpci 3.2.1, GCC 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-16), little endian
Command line (3 args): ./flashrom_QM87_CentOS7 -V -p internal
Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 2426M loops per second, delay more than 10% too short (got 72% of expected delay), recalculating... 3361M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 99 us, 1000 myus = 1014 us, 10000 myus = 11573 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK.
Initializing internal programmer
No coreboot table found.
Using Internal DMI decoder.
DMI string chassis-type: "Notebook"
Laptop detected via DMI.
DMI string system-manufacturer: "To be filled by O.E.M."
DMI string system-product-name: "To be filled by O.E.M."
DMI string system-version: "To be filled by O.E.M."
DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Avalue"
DMI string baseboard-product-name: "To be filled by O.E.M."
DMI string baseboard-version: "To be filled by O.E.M."
W836xx enter config mode worked or we were already in config mode. W836xx leave config mode had no effect.
Active config mode, unknown reg 0x20 ID: 85.
Please send the output of "flashrom -V -p internal" to
flashrom at flashrom.org with W836xx: your board name: flashrom -V
as the subject to help us finish support for your Super I/O. Thanks.
Found ITE EC, ID 0x8518, Rev 0x02 on port 0x2e.
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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.
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Aborting.
Error: Programmer initialization failed.