[flashrom] Flash chip/chipset not found

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Mark,

On 21.10.2015 16:18, Rowlinson Mark wrote:
> I have a 32bit touch screen device running CentOS 5.2 which has some of its BIOS settings accessible in /dev/nvram and others elsewhere else (that's why I've been loooking at flashrom).
> I have tried later distributions (CentOS 6.7 and the System Rescue CD) and they both report the following:
> [root at server ~]# /var/tmp/flashrom-0.9.8/flashrom -p internal
> flashrom v0.9.8-r1888 on Linux 2.6.32-573.el6.i686 (i686)
> [...]
> WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail.
> No EEPROM/flash device found.

It seems we have to add some PCI IDs to our southbridge table.

Do you have an exact name of the machine in question?


> What information is needed to identify the chipset in use so support can be added for these devices?

(as root)
lspci -nnvvvxxx

That should be sufficient for us to find out the southbridge and some of
its settings.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel