On 03.07.2008 16:37, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> Improve coreboot image detection heuristic in flashrom. It's not >> absolutely perfect, but the likelihood of this check to fail is >> 0.000000000000000000000000013 (1.3*10^-26) which is good enough for me. > > I think at some point we should go to a better concept of doing > things, but it seems what you are saying is that your code will > probably not fail on any bios that has been developed to date, as I > doubt it is more than 10^26 bioses.
I calculated the likelihood of a false positive detection of coreboot for a random image. All reports we got about segfaults will be fixed as well, so I'm reasonably positive this bandaid will last. > Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, r3408. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
