On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:53:14AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > flashrom: Force read unknown flash chips > > When flash chip detection fails, it is still useful and possible to read the > flash chip contents. If no flash chip is found in normal probes and the > -f -r -c CHIPNAME options are given, a successful probe for the specified > chip is forced, and flashrom reads the flash chip using either the read > function for the specified chip, or if there is none, a simple memcpy(). > > The patch also moves the global variable int force in flashrom.c into main() > and passes it as a parameter to layout.c:show_id(), which is the only other > function that uses the variable. This is needed to avoid confusion with the > new parameter int force which is added to flashrom.c:probe_flash() to force > a probe success. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tested on alix.2c3, works there. Acked-by: Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the changes proposed by Paul in this thread. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
