On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:43 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 04:02:59PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > On 23.07.2010 15:06, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > flashrom v0.9.2-r1099 on Linux 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 (x86_64), built > > > with libpci 3.1.6, GCC 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10), little endian > > > Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 999 usecs, 1406M loops > > > per second, 10 myus = 0 us, 100 myus = 0 us, 1000 myus = 999 us, 10000 > > > myus = 9999 us, 3996 myus = 3999 us, OK. > > > > > > > It is highly unusual for a halfway modern Linux system to have a timer > > resolution of 1 ms. Usually the Linux kernel will use a time source > > which has 10 us accuracy or better. Is this some special distribution > > kernel? > > It's Fedora 13's standard kernel: > > Linux amd.home.annexia.org 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 6 22:32:17 > UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I've attached the boot messages. > > > > DMI string system-manufacturer: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than > > > version 2.6 are not" > > > DMI string system-product-name: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than > > > version 2.6 are not" > > > DMI string system-version: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version > > > 2.6 are not" > > > DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than > > > version 2.6 are not" > > > DMI string baseboard-product-name: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than > > > version 2.6 are not" > > > DMI string baseboard-version: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than > > > version 2.6 are not" > > > DMI string chassis-type: "# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 > > > are not" > > > > > > > Now this is a serious problem. Apparently dmidecode in Fedora has a > > patch in the RPM (dmidecode-warn-on-unsupported-smbios-version.patch) > > which breaks the original documented output format. If this only > > affected the board enables, it wouldn't be that bad (failing/corrupting > > writes on a few dozen boards which can be fixed interactively), but it > > also completely disables laptop detection and that means Fedora will get > > bug reports about hard lockups and/or disabled fans on laptops. > > I don't want to blame Fedora because this is a patch hand-picked from > > upstream dmidecode. We'll add a workaorund to flashrom ASAP. > > Nice ... > > CC-ing the dmidecode maintainer in Fedora. Thanks for putting me in copy. I will update the dmidecode to understand the new specification and take a look at the mentioned patch to figure out how to handle the situation better.
thanks! Anton. > > Rich. > _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
