On 06.06.2008 15:08, Ludwig Jaffe wrote: > Lets rewrite / improve flashrom! >
A rewrite is unneccessary. Improvements are welcome. > I would like to see an universal function-pointer approach for the > flash-dev handling, as I stated before in this mailing list. > We already have that. > For detection of flash the flash-identification according to the > manufacturers can be used, so all functionpointers for the > detect-routines can be tried. > We already do that. > To detect the mainboard I would additionally suggest looking for strings > in the bios (if original-bios is used). Sorry, that will not work reliably. We have some known false positives and some known false negatives. > For Coreboot, I would suggest to > have a short text with manufacturer, board model, chipset, cpu so string > search can find something. > We already have strings with board manufacturer+model. Chipset and CPU strings do not make sense. > Not to fall over all garbage the string search has to be filtered with > known names as compaq, hp, ibm, asus, phoenix, award, and the like. > > Using DMI is better for newer boards having DMI. > Sorry, that will not work reliably. We have some known false positives and some known false negatives. > So one can build different strategies for identifiing the mainboard. And > use a functionpointer approach to do special tasks for the boards > e.g. switching the bios to flash (some boards have a 2 bios-sockets) > We already do that. > e.g. unprotecting the boot-block. (e.g. my compaq SFF PC needs P34 > soldered in and closed.) So an appropriate text has to be printed, if the > board can not automagically disable write-protection etc. > e.g. do other fancy stuff like unlocking the case. > We already can do that if anyone commits a text message. > Who is in charge for flashboot? > Do you mean flashrom? If so, your patches can be reviewed by the list. > We should organize and manage the change-requests for that little piece > of soft. > Please post patches. We can discuss them. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
