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Stefan ,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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lang=EN-US>on</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=shorttext><SPAN lang=EN-US>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">version</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">upgrade</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
class=hps><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">from</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
class=hps><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">0.9.4</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">0.9.6</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">OS</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">: </SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">FC14 Core Ver.2.6.35.6--45.fc14.i686 (i686)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN class=hps><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>and
used following command<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT
color=#000000>#flashrom -p internal –VV<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Following is the output information:
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>flashrom
v0.9.6.1-r1564 on Linux 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686
(i686)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>flashrom
is free software, get the source code at
http://www.flashrom.org<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>flashrom
was built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4), little
endian<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>Command
line (3 args): flashrom -p internal -VV<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000>Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 6 usecs, 1096M
loops per second, 10 myus = 11 us, 100 myus = 102 us, 1000 myus = 1001 us, 10000
myus = 10005 us, 24 myus = 24 us, OK.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000>Initializing internal
programmer<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>No
coreboot table found.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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align=left><SPAN class=hps><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>DMI
string system-manufacturer: "Topstar
Corporation"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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align=left><SPAN class=hps><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>DMI
string system-product-name: "TEB-H8100"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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align=left><SPAN class=hps><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>DMI
string system-version: "0.1"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>DMI
string baseboard-manufacturer: "Topstar Corp."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 31.5pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-para-margin-left: 3.0gd"
align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>DMI
string baseboard-product-name: "TEB-H8100"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 31.5pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-para-margin-left: 3.0gd"
align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>DMI
string baseboard-version: "FAB1"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>DMI
string chassis-type: "Laptop"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>Laptop
detected via DMI.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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ITE Super I/O, ID 0x8782 on port 0x2e<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at">Stefan Tauner</A></DIV>
<DIV><B>Date:</B> 2013-01-19 10:03</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:zhuzhihui@chinalotsynergy.com">朱智会</A></DIV>
<DIV><B>CC:</B> <A href="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org">flashrom</A>; <A
href="mailto:duxinlei@chinalotsynergy.com">'duxinlei'</A></DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [flashrom] Appreciate for developing HM65 BIOS R\W
tool SW</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:28:53 +0800</DIV>
<DIV>朱智会 <zhuzhihui@chinalotsynergy.com> wrote:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>> Dear Sir/Madam</DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> This is Jake zhu and David Du from China Lotsynergy, our company is an IPC</DIV>
<DIV>> based system integrated provider located in Guangzhou, China. To meet our</DIV>
<DIV>> customer’s requirement of providing a BIOS R\W tool (OS: FC14 Core Ver. 2.</DIV>
<DIV>> 6.35.6--45.fc14.i686 (i686)), we tried to seek proper tool in internet and</DIV>
<DIV>> found FlashRom at the first time.</DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> We downloaded FlashRom Ver L: v0.9.4-r1455 and used following command</DIV>
<DIV>> #flashrom -r sysbios.bin, but fail with below error info:</DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> After double check the supported chipset list in website, we found the South</DIV>
<DIV>> Bridge Chipset HM65 is not supported; however BIOS Flash Chip (W25Q32) is</DIV>
<DIV>> supported (see below).</DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> </DIV>
<DIV>> So write to you for help to develop a BIOS R\W tools SW (/OS: FC14 Core Ver.</DIV>
<DIV>> 2.6.35.6--45.fc14.i686 (i686), and below the necessary info for your</DIV>
<DIV>> reference, due to tight schedule of project, we do appreciate for your great</DIV>
<DIV>> help to develop the mentioned tools SW within next week.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Hello David, </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>in general the chipset as well as the flash chip are well supported by</DIV>
<DIV>flashrom. The Intel chipsets can however be configured to restrict flash</DIV>
<DIV>access very firmly. There are various ways to restrict it (forbidden</DIV>
<DIV>opcodes, write- and read-protected addresses ranges of different kinds</DIV>
<DIV>etc.). If the board does not set up too many restrictions, flashrom</DIV>
<DIV>will work for you without problems.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The "error" (it is a warning actually, and you can and should read about</DIV>
<DIV>the details in the man page how to force flashrom to continue) is</DIV>
<DIV>because the SMBIOS/DMI table in the firmware indicates that it is a</DIV>
<DIV>mobile device and those sometimes behave in dangerous ways. This is</DIV>
<DIV>especially the case if the flash chip is not attached to the</DIV>
<DIV>southbridge but and EC which is sitting between the southbridge and the</DIV>
<DIV>flash chip.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You should also update to a newer version, 0.9.4 is pretty old and I</DIV>
<DIV>have done quite some work on the intel-related code.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>When you found out how to tell flashrom to continue even though it</DIV>
<DIV>thinks it is running on a laptop please send us the output of</DIV>
<DIV>flashrom -p internal -VV</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I can then tell you some details about the restrictions set up in the</DIV>
<DIV>current firmware.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>-- </DIV>
<DIV>Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>