[flashrom] [PATCH] Hack libpci not to exit(1) during init if PCI does not work

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Jul 4 08:59:48 CEST 2011


On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:17:01 +0200
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 03.07.2011 12:02 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:14:20 +0200
> > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> >   
> >> To check if the hack works, run "flashrom -V" and respond to this mail
> >> with the output. You should get a message near the end which says that
> >> programmer initialization failed.
> >>     
> > sudo ./flashrom -V
> > flashrom v0.9.3-r1362 on Linux 2.6.35-30-generic (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
> > flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
> >
> > Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 1445M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 99 us, 1000 myus = 988 us, 10000 myus = 9931 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK.
> > Initializing nicintel programmer
> > Error: No supported PCI device found.
> >   
> 
> Good, that means it still works as designed on machines with PCI. The
> error message I mentioned should only appear on non-PCI hosts.

i thought it was pretty pointless, but since you did not mention any
prerequisites for testing i just gave it a try anyway :)

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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