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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0">Hello Experts,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0">I have tried installing the flashrom-0.9.4 in my laptop having Ubuntu 9.10. The flashchip is AT25DF321A and the chipset is QM67. When I tried to execute the
flashrom utility I got the below output:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#7030A0">#########################<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">root@ubuntu:~#<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">root@ubuntu:~# flashrom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.1, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at
<a href="http://www.flashrom.org">http://www.flashrom.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Calibrating delay loop... OK.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">========================================================================<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">(EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">See <a href="http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops">http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops</a> for details.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop and write may brick your laptop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight failure and sudden poweroff.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">You have been warned.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">========================================================================<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Aborting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">root@ubuntu:~#<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">root@ubuntu:~#<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0">###########################<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0">Can anyone please help on how to proceed further?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0">Thanks for the help,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#7030A0">Raghu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#7030A0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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