On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > Aurélien wrote: > > > > I tried to make a patch which reads from /dev/mem directly in 2 ways: > > > > - mmap()ing /dev/mem, but it seemed that it would be too specific a > > > > modification to be accepted. > > > > > > See http://stuge.se/physrd.c for a fairly generic tool to do this. > > > > You're right, splitting the feature in two tools seems much more > > correct. This way we can extract the ROM image, then extract the > > specific payload. > > Well, for that purpose it's much better to simply use flashrom. > > Probably, but flashrom takes slighly more time due to various calibration routines (I could not find a way to disable those, but I didn't try very hard), and is less integrable that just reading like this. I don't need much portability between mainboards anyways.
In the general case however, you are right, the flashrom method seems much more robust. -- Aurélien Guillaume
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