On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:40:02 -0700 Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/11/13 9:42 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote: > > This is slightly related to the write strategy discussion, so I'll > > hijack its thread. While rebasing my layout patch set I rewrote the > > layout file parser. It is now more flexible and it would be easy to > > support more features. One feature it does already support are comments > > starting with a # (anywhere in a line). > > > > ATM it parses all previously valid layout files (AFAIK) and it should > > continue to do so, even if they are not too common yet. We do not know > > the exact numbers of usage, so breaking an unknown number of systems > > does not seem like a good idea. We could and should provide a script > > that converts 1.0 files to 2.0 syntax though. That should be trivial > > anyway. > Current layout files have not ever been used afaik, except by a customer > of mine who went out of business several years ago. Feel free to just > deprecate the old format, instead of engineering a tedious migration path. Hm interesting. I am not so sure about that, but it is certainly not a much used feature (yet). Which is probably related to the fact, that it is not very usable as it was. :) OTOH there was a huge interest in that features in the last months from Intel users due to the ME limitations (which was also my main motivation to work on it). In any case I don't think that the migration would be very tedious. Carldani brought up the compatibility issue back when david wanted to change the address base: http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2010-November/005465.html -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
