<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello,</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">See below the output of the /flashrom
-p internal -V on a National Instruments 8351 Rackmount Controller. It
is a rebranded MSI MS-9218.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">After specifying the laptop:this_is_not_a_laptop
option the flashrom is able to detect and read the flash fine:</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Proceeding anyway because user forced
us to.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R".
Enabling flash write... OK.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Found SST flash chip "SST49LF008A"
(1024 kB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff00000.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Reading flash... done.</font><br><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">root@TS333:~/flashrom# ./flashrom -p
internal -V</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1620 on Linux 2.6.32-41-generic-pae
(i686)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">flashrom is free software, get the source
code at </font><a href=http://www.flashrom.org/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.flashrom.org</font></a><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">flashrom was built with libpci 3.0.0,
GCC 4.4.3, little endian</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Command line (3 args): ./flashrom -p
internal -V</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Initializing internal programmer</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">No coreboot table found.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI string system-manufacturer: "MSI"</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI string system-product-name: "GrantsDale
CRB Board"</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI string system-version: "MSI
CORPORATION"</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "bbl"</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI string baseboard-product-name: "MS-9218"</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI string baseboard-version: "Revision
A "</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI string chassis-type: "Other"</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DMI chassis-type is not specific enough.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">W836xx enter config mode worked or we
were already in config mode. W836xx leave
config
mode had no effect.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Active config mode, unknown reg 0x20
ID: e9.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Please send the output of "flashrom
-V" to</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">flashrom@flashrom.org with W836xx: your
board name: flashrom -V</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">as the subject to help us finish support
for your Super I/O. Thanks.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">========================================================================</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">WARNING! You may be running flashrom
on an unsupported laptop. We could</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">not detect this for sure because your
vendor has not setup the SMBIOS</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">tables correctly. You can enforce execution
by adding</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">'-p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop'
to the command line, but</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">please read the following warning if
you are not sure.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are
difficult to support and we</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">recommend to use the vendor flashing
utility. The embedded controller</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">(EC) in these machines often interacts
badly with flashing.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">See </font><a href=http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">for details.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If flash is shared with the EC, erase
is guaranteed to brick your laptop</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">and write may brick your laptop.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Read and probe may irritate your EC
and cause fan failure, backlight</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">failure and sudden poweroff.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You have been warned.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">========================================================================</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Aborting.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Error: Programmer initialization failed.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Please see below the output of the dmidecode:</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SMBIOS 2.33 present.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">33 structures occupying 1025 bytes.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Table at 0x000DC010.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">BIOS Information</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Vendor:
MSI</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Version:
P9218NI V1.36</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Release
Date: 10/26/2006</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Address:
0xE4F80</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Runtime
Size: 110720 bytes</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> ROM Size:
1024 kB</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Characteristics:</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
ISA is supported</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PCI is supported</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PNP is supported</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
APM is supported</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
BIOS is upgradeable</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
BIOS shadowing is allowed</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
ESCD support is available</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
USB legacy is supported</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
Smart battery is supported</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
BIOS boot specification is supported</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">System Information</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Manufacturer:
MSI</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Product
Name: GrantsDale CRB Board</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Version:
MSI CORPORATION</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Serial Number:
0123456789</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> UUID: Not
Settable</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Wake-up
Type: Power Switch</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Base Board Information</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Manufacturer:
bbl</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Product
Name: MS-9218</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Version:
Revision A</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Serial Number:
400</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Chassis Information</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Manufacturer:
MSI</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Type: Other</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Lock: Not
Present</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Version:
N/A</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Serial Number:
None</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Asset Tag:
No Asset Tag</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Boot-up
State: Safe</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Power Supply
State: Safe</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Thermal
State: Safe</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Security
Status: None</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> OEM Information:
0x00001234</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Processor Information</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Socket Designation:
LGA775/PRESCOTT</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Type: Central
Processor</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Family:
Pentium 4</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Manufacturer:
Intel Corporation</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> ID: 44 0F
00 00 FF FB EB BF</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Signature:
Type 0, Family 15, Model 4, Stepping 4</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Flags:</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
VME (Virtual mode extension)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
DE (Debugging extension)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PSE (Page size extension)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
TSC (Time stamp counter)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
MSR (Model specific registers)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PAE (Physical address extension)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
MCE (Machine check exception)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
SEP (Fast system call)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
MTRR (Memory type range registers)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PGE (Page global enable)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
MCA (Machine check architecture)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PAT (Page attribute table)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
DS (Debug store)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
ACPI (ACPI supported)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
MMX (MMX technology supported)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
SS (Self-snoop)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
HTT (Hyper-threading technology)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
TM (Thermal monitor supported)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
PBE (Pending break enabled)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Version:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Voltage:
1.8 V</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> External
Clock: Unknown</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Max Speed:
3800 MHz</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Current
Speed: 3000 MHz</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Status:
Populated, Enabled</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Upgrade:
ZIF Socket</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> L1 Cache
Handle: 0x0005</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> L2 Cache
Handle: 0x0006</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> L3 Cache
Handle: Not Provided</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Serial Number:
<BAD INDEX></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Asset Tag:
<BAD INDEX></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Part Number:
<BAD INDEX></font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Invalid entry length (0). DMI table
is broken! Stop.</font><br><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Our company is manufacturing a wide
range of embedded x86 based PXI controllers. I have checked some, and most
of them was worked with the flashrom after specifying the this_is_not_a_laptop
switch. </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What kind of information do you need
to get them officaly verified and supported?</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thank you for the flashrom, this is
a great program!</font><br><br><font size=1 face="Verdana"><b>Regards,<br>Miklós Márton |</b> Test Engineer / NIH Test Development <b>| </b>Tel:
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