On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 01:41:30PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 12:20, Nico Huber <nic...@gmx.de> wrote: > > So we didn't need these things before. Why do we need them now? > > Meson makes it possible to build fwupd as a subproject of fwupd, on > any architecture, on any distro, which means we can use libflashrom on > machines that don't ship a new enough distro version. A lot of > companies care (including Google) about using fwupd for updating > system firmware, and without libflashrom being available we'd just > drop the flashrom plugin in fwupd, and in all honesty just reimplement > the required bits of flashing to SPI directly. As a project you can do > as you like, but dropping meson would be a huge step backwards for > people actually using flashrom in production systems and I'm sure > would alter the future viability of the project.
Sounds like you are making an fwupd problem into a flashrom problem. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- flashrom@flashrom.org To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-le...@flashrom.org
