On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Stefan Tauner <[email protected]> wrote: > Marc Jones has replied to my GSoC proposals but I really dislike having > conversations on the GSoC website and because we will probably need to > discuss more than just a few corrections, I'll reply here. > > The first proposal is about the end user tool: > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/stefant/5870670537818112 > > Marc commented: >> What type of flash or coreboot images would you look at working with? I >> think that the chromebook , Intel FSP and AMD systems have a number of >> different blob requirements now. Would it be Intel descriptor aware? >> What about EFI aware? > > Thank you for your questions. To be honest, I don't know the answers > yet. I hope Patrick finds time to discuss this here with me in the next > days/weeks so that I can write a decent specification. In general I > want to investigate all possibilities to get a good overview about > essential differences in the work flows and formats. That way I can > make sure that even if I don't implement them all the code can be > extended appropriately later. > > I know the Intel layout best so far due to my work on the > ich_descriptors_tool (which Stepan did not know about when he started > ifdtool), and flashrom's Intel support. Unifying ifdtool and > ich_descriptors_tool and making it reusable/"libify" it could be one > goal of this project. Basically ifdtool supports basic r/w of Intel > images while ich_descriptors_tool is r/o but dumps lots of extra > information (softstraps stored in the descriptor region mostly). > This is not related to the VGABIOS that is (probably?) still stored > somewhere in the BIOS region? The ME and GbE regions are separate and > can be copied over easily AFAIK (if they are readable that is :)
ifdtool/descriptor lib would be great to add as a goal in the application. Thanks for the clarifications. I think that this is an interesting project. Marc -- http://se-eng.com _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
