Thanks for the try, but the laptop shut it self down while I was asleep. And it's a brick now. Shit happens, first time I managed to kill a main-board in those 17 years I've worked with computers.
A patch that changed this output would have been better if it was already in place when I tested it: === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE Please email a report to [email protected] if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -rV, -wV, -EV) , and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested. Thanks for your help! +WARNING! DON'T DO A "flashrom -EV" ON A LAPTOP THO, SINCE IT MIGHT TURN IT INTO A BRICK! === Cheers 2010/4/12 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]>: > --force may have been a good idea back when only developers were using > flashrom, but over the last few months I've seen too many people who > incorrectly believed that --force would solve anything. > > One of the problems is that --force has multiple meanings: > - Force chip read by faking probe success. > - Force writing even if cbtable tells us that this is the wrong image > for this board. > - Force chip access even if the chip is bigger than max decode size for > the flash bus. > - Force erase even if erase is known bad. > - Force write even if write is known bad. > We should kill --force and replace it with explicit --force-erase or > --force-cbtable-mismatch or similar stuff, maybe -p internal:ignore_cbtable. > > First step: > - Remove any suggestions to use --force for probe/read from flashrom output. > - Don't talk about "success" or "Found chip" if the chip is forced. > > Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]> > > Index: flashrom-forced_stupid/cli_classic.c > =================================================================== > --- flashrom-forced_stupid/cli_classic.c (Revision 992) > +++ flashrom-forced_stupid/cli_classic.c (Arbeitskopie) > @@ -303,6 +303,18 @@ > cli_classic_usage(argv[0]); > } > > + if (chip_to_probe) { > + for (flash = flashchips; flash && flash->name; flash++) > + if (!strcmp(flash->name, chip_to_probe)) > + break; > + if (!flash || !flash->name) { > + fprintf(stderr, "Error: Unknown chip specified.\n"); > + exit(1); > + } > + /* Clean up after the check. */ > + flash = NULL; > + } > + > if (programmer_init()) { > fprintf(stderr, "Error: Programmer initialization failed.\n"); > exit(1); > @@ -329,14 +341,10 @@ > } else if (!flashes[0]) { > printf("No EEPROM/flash device found.\n"); > if (!force || !chip_to_probe) { > - printf("If you know which flash chip you have, and if > this version of flashrom\n"); > - printf("supports a similar flash chip, you can try to > force read your chip. Run:\n"); > - printf("flashrom -f -r -c > similar_supported_flash_chip filename\n"); > - printf("\n"); > - printf("Note: flashrom can never write when the flash > chip isn't found automatically.\n"); > + printf("Note: flashrom can never write if the flash > chip isn't found automatically.\n"); > } > if (force && read_it && chip_to_probe) { > - printf("Force read (-f -r -c) requested, forcing chip > probe success:\n"); > + printf("Force read (-f -r -c) requested, pretending > the chip is there:\n"); > flashes[0] = probe_flash(flashchips, 1); > if (!flashes[0]) { > printf("flashrom does not support a flash chip > named '%s'.\n", chip_to_probe); > Index: flashrom-forced_stupid/flashrom.c > =================================================================== > --- flashrom-forced_stupid/flashrom.c (Revision 992) > +++ flashrom-forced_stupid/flashrom.c (Arbeitskopie) > @@ -924,7 +924,8 @@ > if (!flash || !flash->name) > return NULL; > > - printf("Found chip \"%s %s\" (%d KB, %s) at physical address > 0x%lx.\n", > + printf("%s chip \"%s %s\" (%d KB, %s) at physical address 0x%lx.\n", > + force ? "Assuming" : "Found", > flash->vendor, flash->name, flash->total_size, > flashbuses_to_text(flash->bustype), base); > > > > -- > http://www.hailfinger.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > flashrom mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom > _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
