Please also see layout patches - https://github.com/stefanct/flashrom/pull/3 + https://github.com/stefanct/flashrom/pull/4 Best regards, Anton Kochkov.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:10:31AM -0700, David Hendricks wrote: >> Hi Willy, >> You might be interested in another approach that is used in the chromium >> branch <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/flashrom>. >> The "--diff" longopt allows the user to supply a file to diff against the >> -w argument. This is useful in cases where the user wishes to skip the >> initial read step, and flashrom will figure out which blocks need to be >> erased and written thereby eliminating unnecessary erase/write operations >> as well. >> >> There is some documentation for it here: >> https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/packages/cros-flashrom#TOC-Speeding-Up-Writes > > Thank you I'll take a look at it, it can indeed be another solution. The > only thing is that it requires the creation of an extra file and I tend to > find that it's not always convenient to have to create files for known > patterns. However I think that it would be possible based on your > approach to provide an option to replace the file with a known pattern > for some cases (eg: full of 0xff or full of 0x00, which could be called > "assume-clean" or "assume-dirty"), which would achieve the same result > and at the same time not change the spirit of your latest work. > > Best regards, > Willy > > > _______________________________________________ > flashrom mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
