[flashrom] W836xx: your board name: flashrom -V

Christopher M. Penalver christopher.m.penalver at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 20:43:14 CET 2016


You may already be aware, but I wanted to post as this was advised as
per the flashrom program.

sudo flashrom -V -p internal
flashrom v0.9.7-r1852 on Linux 4.3.0-7-generic (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

flashrom was built with libpci 3.3.1, GCC 5.2.1 20151022, little endian
Command line (3 args): flashrom -V -p internal
Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 3029M loops
per second, delay more than 10% too short (got 84% of expected delay),
recalculating... 3199M loops per second, delay more than 10% too short
(got 89% of expected delay), recalculating... 3097M loops per second,
delay more than 10% too short (got 87% of expected delay),
recalculating... 2844M loops per second, delay more than 10% too short
(got 89% of expected delay), recalculating... 3143M loops per second,
delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus
= 93 us, 1000 myus = 1325 us, 10000 myus = 11085 us, 4 myus = 5 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: "TOSHIBA"
DMI string system-product-name: "Satellite S55-C"
DMI string system-version: "PSPTJU-006005"
DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "FF50                            "
DMI string baseboard-product-name: "06F1                            "
DMI string baseboard-version: "Type2 - Board Version"
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: fc.
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.
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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.

Christopher M. Penalver
E-Mail: christopher.m.penalver at gmail.com




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