[flashrom] Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-08 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hello there, I hope you are well today when you receive this email. I am Aarya Chaumal, a Computer Engineering student at the College of Engineering Pune, India. While going through organizations for this year's Google's Summer of Code I came across your organization, Flashrom. I am a part

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-12 Thread Aarya Chaumal
ar 10, 2022 at 10:45 AM Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > > Hello Aarya, > > Nice to meet you! I think I saw your question on the IRC channel, and someone > replied, was that your question? > Do you still need more info? Let us know if yes. > > Thanks! > > On Wed, Mar 9,

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-19 Thread Aarya Chaumal
ct, > we want to make this code run on little and big endian systems. Besides > that, we may find additional parts in the code which are endian > specific. > > -- Thomas > > On Sun, 2022-03-13 at 08:13 +0530, Aarya Chaumal wrote: > > As suggested, I have been doing some of

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-21 Thread Aarya Chaumal
thoughts about making progress without proposing a purchase, > just let Aarya know. > > > > Regards, > > > > Simon > > > > > > *Von:* Anastasia Klimchuk > *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 13. März 2022 07:45 > *An:* flashrom@flashrom.org; Aarya Chaumal > *Betre

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-25 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi Anastasia, Thanks for the merge (Feel great contributing to flashrom). Thanks for helping me better understand flashrom and the projects for GSoC. As I said before I am interested in "Optimize Erase-Function Selection" and "Fix Endianness Issues" (I still cant decide which one to choose, kinda

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-26 Thread Aarya Chaumal
rase-function to use. > > > > * Get familiar with writing only certain regions of a flash (i.e. using a > layout file) for better understanding of all the use cases > > > > Just let us know if you got any further questions or ideas. > > > > Regards, > >

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-27 Thread Aarya Chaumal
ation! :) > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 6:36 PM Felix Singer > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 10:57 +0530, Aarya Chaumal wrote: > > [...] > > > As I said before I am interested in "Optimize Erase-Function > > > Selection" and "Fix End

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-31 Thread Aarya Chaumal
ossible > starting points (and by the way will show you that there are people willing > to help kindly J ). I think we are running into something like using a > look-ahead algorithm to determine which erase-function to use. > > > > * Get familiar with writing only certain regions of

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-31 Thread Aarya Chaumal
o > I decided to clarify. > > You are welcome to ask questions, if you have any about the project, > so that you can write the proposal yourself. > Good luck! > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 8:18 PM Thomas Heijligen wrote: > > > > > > > > On 26 March 2022 05:44:5

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-31 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi Thomas, Can overlapping regions in the layout file cause problems or lead to ambiguous results. If yes, then I think we should do the checks. Aarya. On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:48 PM Thomas Heijligen wrote: > > > On 26 March 2022 05:44:56 WET, Aarya Chaumal > wrote: > H

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-11 Thread Aarya Chaumal
> free to think about other ways. But just have in mind that before putting > too much effort on a solution discuss it to avoid disappointment. But for > more detailed discussion we should wait until project starts (sorry to make > you wait – I appreciate your curiosity! - , but this does

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-15 Thread Aarya Chaumal
e more due to my college exams. Although, I would love to do it after GSOC if the project remains available then. Aarya. On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 5:45 PM Nico Huber wrote: > Hi Aarya, > > On 11.04.22 13:46, Aarya Chaumal wrote: > > In the "Optimizing Erase Function Selecti

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-05-16 Thread Aarya Chaumal
hings are going. For now, you did everything right, > and submitted the project proposal at the right time. Thanks! :) > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 5:22 AM Aarya Chaumal > wrote: > > > > Anastasia and Felix, > > > > I submitted my proposal for "optimize erase fun

[flashrom] GSOC Project Thread - Optimising Erase Function Selection

2022-05-24 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi, Today I had my first meet with my mentors Thomas and Simon, and we discussed a few things involving the timeline and initial tasks for the project. There are mainly two parts to the project : 1. Developing a strategy to optimize the selection of the erase function to reduce the overall time

[flashrom] Re: GSOC Project Thread - Optimising Erase Function Selection

2022-06-10 Thread Aarya Chaumal
1 Next, we'll start to implement the above algorithm. Aarya. On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 1:14 AM Aarya Chaumal wrote: > Hi, > Today I had my first meet with my mentors Thomas and Simon, and we > discussed a few things involving the timeline and initial tasks for the > project. > There

[flashrom] Re: Flashrom sp_stream_buffer_op() API issue

2022-05-07 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi Chinmay, Actually calling memcpy with NULL as parameters can lead to undefined behavior, so scan-build is showing that warning. There is already a patch regarding the same on Gerrit: https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/62726 Aarya. On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 5:01 PM Chinmay Lonkar wrote:

[flashrom] Optimized Erase Function Selection Algorithm

2023-02-28 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi everyone, I am excited to announce that we've added the optimized erase function selection algorithm to the master branch. It will optimally select the erase functions according to the flash region to erase/write. This should make using our application quicker and more convenient. Please