[LinuxBIOS] r2494 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

svn at openbios.org svn at openbios.org
Tue Nov 7 14:48:48 CET 2006


Author: stepan
Date: 2006-11-07 14:48:46 +0100 (Tue, 07 Nov 2006)
New Revision: 2494

Modified:
   trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/sst_fwhub.c
Log:
Instead of checking the first byte only, the whole part is checked now. This
will detect any improper erase, closes #31
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> 


Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/sst_fwhub.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/sst_fwhub.c	2006-11-07 11:16:21 UTC (rev 2493)
+++ trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/sst_fwhub.c	2006-11-07 13:48:46 UTC (rev 2494)
@@ -95,14 +95,17 @@
 	    flash->page_size;
 	volatile uint8_t *bios = flash->virt_addr;
 
-	// Do we want block wide erase?
+	// FIXME: We want block wide erase instead of ironing the whole chip
 	erase_sst_fwhub(flash);
 	
-	// FIXME: This test is not sufficient!
-	if (*bios != 0xff) {
-		printf("ERASE FAILED\n");
-		return -1;
+	// dumb check if erase was successful.
+	for (i=0; i < total_size; i++) {
+		if (bios[i] != 0xff) {
+			printf("ERASE FAILED\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
 	}
+
 	printf("Programming Page: ");
 	for (i = 0; i < total_size / page_size; i++) {
 		printf("%04d at address: 0x%08x", i, i * page_size);





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