On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:34:23PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > Motiejus Jakštys wrote: > > Yes, it flashed fine. There is still a minor disturbance, though: > > tp_smapi does not recognize my TP. But whatever, I can live with that. > > Could you send some logs showing this failure? I don't recall seeing > it, but I also haven't actively tried to use tp_smapi on my machine.
# modprobe tp_smapi FATAL: Error inserting tp_smapi (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/updates/dkms/tp_smapi.ko): No such device and in dmesg: [ 1833.552687] thinkpad_ec: no ThinkPad embedded controller! According to ThinkWiki[1], I should upgrade my BIOS. I gave up here. I wonder are there any gotchas if I run Linux as BIOS as a Payload? Quite scary. It is so weird to think about a computer without BIOS. > > > Now, there is also a possibility that coreboot can do something to > > > work around this situation, similarly to what the factory BIOS > > > obviously does, since the noise is not present there, but this has > > > not been researched. > > > > Probably power saving was disabled in original BIOS. I got this computer > > used and somehow didn't check it, was too hurry to flash to coreboot. > > I somehow think the power saving has too big impact on battery life > to have been disabled, but oh well. Well, I can revert to my old bios and see what was there for real. Would it make sense? Besides, what exactly is your TP model? > > > I'm glad to hear that it works for you! > > > > Thanks a lot for your help. :) > > You're welcome, but thank Sven instead, he did the port and pointed > out the flashrom trick! :) Thanks Sven! This community is awesome. Motiejus [1]: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
