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Topic: Issues with flashrom

Cannot figure out why, but keep getting errors even when I use iomem=relaxed

I cannot flash any libreboot roms onto my system.

Its very annoying... is this a kernel issue or flashrom issue?

Or is it something else...?

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Re: Issues with flashrom

What is the concrete error in the concrete usecase?
What kind of system is here meant?

Please provide more details before going into assumptions (kernel, flashrom etc.). Also to note: We can't help in all details for a concrete package. If you have specific questions, please ask them in the context of the upstream-project and their support-channels (https://www.flashrom.org/).

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Re: Issues with flashrom

Cleared with a direct talk. To make a common picture:

flashrom -p internal
flashrom unknown on Linux 5.10.127-gnu1-1-lts (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
Error accessing high tables, 0x1000 bytes at 0x000000007f772000
/dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted
Failed getting access to coreboot high tables.
Error accessing DMI Table, 0x1000 bytes at 0x000000007f746000
/dev/mem mmap failed: Operation not permitted
Segmentation fault

It should be solved with a rework for /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="iomem=relaxed quiet"
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Re: Issues with flashrom

Funny thing, I had actually tried to find that option, due to a memory that was for the time being missing around then.

Perhaps if I had reinstalled uswsusp, I would have remembered? Idk...

But this is a good reminder of me forgetting something. 

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