[coreboot] flashrom issues??

[joe at smittys.pointclark.net]

Quoting Tom Sylla <tsylla at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM,  <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
>>  rm4100
>>  [root at localhost proc]# dd if=/dev/port bs=1 skip=$[0x0800] count=128 | xxd
>>  256+0 records in
>>  256+0 records out
>>  256 bytes (256 B) copied, 0.00171602 s, 149 kB/s
>>  0000000: 0000 0000 dc00 140f e700 0000 0000 0000  ................
> <SNIP>
>>  >> rm4100
>>  >> 00 00 00 00 dc 00 14 0f e7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> <SNIP>
>>  The output is not that nice I had to doctor it up a little bit.
>
>
> I use hexdump instead, no doctoring required:
>
> [xxx at xxx xxx]# dd if=/dev/port bs=1 skip=$[0x0800] count=128 | hexdump -C
> 00000000  00 00 00 00 18 00 00 c0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    
> |................|
> 00000010  02 00 80 80 00 00 00 80  00 00 20 00 00 00 02 00    
> |.......... .....|
> 00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    
> |................|
> 00000030  00 04 00 01 00 00 06 00  00 84 84 84 84 84 01 00    
> |................|
> 00000040  01 84 05 05 05 04 05 04  05 04 00 91 40 01 28 57    
> |............ at .(W|
> 00000050  47 60 00 00 00 00 00 9f  5c 6c 00 06 00 00 a4 00    
> |G`......\l......|
> 00000060  01 00 61 01 60 00 00 00  60 7f 04 00 00 00 00 00    
> |..a.`...`.......|
> 00000070  0e 01 00 04 00 01 18 00  00 00 00 00 20 52 6c 6b    
> |............ Rlk|
> 00000080
>
> You can get quite fancy with hexdump's '-e' option, displaying in
> dwords, tab formatting, etc.
> The '-C' option gets the output formatted easily.
>

Cool, thanks for the tip Tom:-)

Thanks - Joe