On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:20:36AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > The evolution of flashrom is somewhat funny:
Too many cooks, a little bitrot and that's what you get. :) Anyway - optimize for the common case! That means degrading in uncommon cases, which I think is fine. > As long as we don't perform per-bus/address probing (where > appropriate), there will be no real fix for readability nor > functionality. -frc can allow reading at any time if the chip is the only problem. Multiple known chips will work reliably. Multiple chips with 2nd or 3rd unknown will not work - but this is a highly uncommon case so I do not really care. > Stefan's cleanup queue looks very promising, though. > Peter, can you hold this patch for a few more days until Stefan had > time to send part 2 of his cleanup stuff? I expect it to take much longer than a few days, and thus be after 1.0, which should go out the door any day now. > I believe that will simplify the code greatly, while fixing the > "unknown chip" problem permanently. I should go post a reply in the flash bus thread. I have some thoughts. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
