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I know that the data sheets say we can't read the ROM straps, but creative interpretation of the data sheets yielded a heuristic which should work pretty well. NOTE: If you test this, make sure you power down and _unplug_ the machine for a few minutes before you boot and run flashrom with this patch. If the machine is not unplugged for some time, the test will yield incorrect results. If you run a slightly older flashrom version than svn HEAD, the test will yield incorrect results. If you run any flashrom version (except svn HEAD plus this patch) after poweron, the test will yield incorrect results. Explanation: Older flashrom versions unconditionally write to registers which are used for this heuristic. These registers are in the S5 power domain, so even powering down does not clear them, you really have to unplug the machine and remove the battery if this is a laptop. Corresponding to flashrom svn r491. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
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flashrom README
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flashrom is a utility for reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash ROM
chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images.
It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, and
TSOP40 chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash,
or SPI.
(see http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot)
Build Requirements
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To build flashrom you need to install the following packages or ports:
Linux et al:
* pciutils
* pciutils-devel / pciutils-dev / libpci-dev
* zlib-devel / zlib1g-dev
On FreeBSD, you need the following ports:
* devel/gmake
* devel/libpci
To compile on Linux, use:
make
To compile on FreeBSD, use:
gmake
To compile on Solaris, use:
gmake LDFLAGS="-L$pathtolibpci -lpci -lz" CC="gcc -I$pathtopciheaders" \
CFLAGS=-O2
To compile on DragonFly BSD, use:
ln -s /usr/pkg/include/pciutils pci
gmake CFLAGS=-I. LDFLAGS="-L/usr/pkg/lib -lpci -lz"
To compile and run on Darwin/Mac OS X:
Install DirectIO from coresystems GmbH.
DirectIO is available at http://www.coresystems.de/en/directio.
Usage / Options
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Please see the flashrom(8) manpage.
Exit status
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Please see the flashrom(8) manpage.
coreboot Table and Mainboard Identification
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Please see the flashrom(8) manpage.
ROM Layout Support
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Please see the flashrom(8) manpage.
Supported Flash Chips / Chipsets / Mainboards
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Please check the output of 'flashrom -L' for the list of supported
flash chips, chipsets/southbridges, and mainboards.
See also http://coreboot.org/Flashrom for more details.