On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:37:31 +0100 Bernd Blaauw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op 15-2-2012 16:23, Stefan Tauner schreef: > > Also, rephrase the documention related to laptops completely to make it > > less redundant and more informative. > > Document the laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop internal programmer parameter > > Whatever happened to flashrom's semi-dependency on DMIDECODE? > I thought flashrom implemented its own dmi-calls since 0.9.4, sadly not, feel free to review my patch ;) http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3356/ > but trying > Idwer's DOS-port (rev1452) and not having DMIDECOD.EXE (yep, 8.3 naming, > sorry) all I end up with in VMware/FreeDOS is a "hey can't identify > anything, so this must be a laptop..if not, please override". more like "it *may* be a laptop, please confirm it is not" > Overriding still produces the same 'please override' output followed by > a message that you're overriding, and continues. Ofcourse no single > emulation platform seems to have a flashrom anyway, so stuff happily aborts. seems ok to me? > I guess flashrom could at least continue to try reading without needing > an override. Erasing and writing ofcourse do require overrides if > anything is uncertain in advance. and that guess is wrong. i have been told that *any* unexpected (by the EC) flash access could lead to annoyances (as described in more detail now in the manpage...) and that's the reason why we introduce such seemingly stupid stuff. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
