[LinuxBIOS] New LAR access functions

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Jul 12 19:02:51 CEST 2007


* Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> [070712 18:21]:
> > flashrom should at the very least know how to read a lar and make
> > sure it is sane.  If we include the sector size from above, then
> > flashrom could do some very basic sanity checking before starting.
> 
> The real fun begins when larball has one sector size and flash chip
> another, and we only want to replace a single larfile.

So the question is: Who should reorganize the lar file so it uses the
chip optimally? If it is flashrom we might lock out other bios flashers
to be used with linuxbios.

Stefan

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