[coreboot] Is Coreboot selfmodifying? Award legacy Bios is!

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Oct 2 00:21:13 CEST 2008


On 01.10.2008 19:40, ron minnich wrote:
> we don't rewrite flash. Yes, this is hazardous I think as well.
>   

We may do that soon, but I promise it will be done in the most careful
way possible. That means regardless of when the write to a flash chip
fails, you can still boot and still have your configuration data.
Why? NVRAM is not really unlimited storage. Expect a proposal and
skeleton code in the next few days.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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