>From flashrom's man page:
Laptops
Using flashrom on laptops is dangerous and may easily make your
hardware unusable (see also the BUGS section). The embedded
controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with
flashing. More information is in the wiki
<https://flashrom.org/Laptops>. For example the EC firmware
sometimes resides on the same flash chip as the host firmware.
While flashrom tries to change the contents of that memory the
EC might need to fetch new instructions or data from it and
could stop working correctly. Probing for and reading from the
chip may also irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
failure, sudden poweroff, and other nasty effects. flashrom will
attempt to detect if it is running on a laptop and abort
immediately for safety reasons if it clearly identifies the host
computer as one. If you want to proceed anyway at your own risk,
use
flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick
We will not help you if you force flashing on a laptop because
this is a really dumb idea.
So, I guess I should look at BiosDisk too.
On 6/6/16, Alan Corey <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, so that's why it wasn't in pbrowser yet. Running in single user
> mode sounds like a pain. Also the install puts the man page in
> /usr/local/share/man/man8 . And I haven't gotten to why it says not
> to run on laptops yet.
>
> On 6/6/16, Daniel Bolgheroni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> See this:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=146464871825362&w=2
>>
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>> db
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