[coreboot] flashrom: Can't mmap memory

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 18:58:12 CET 2009


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
>> > It'll work in this case but the flash chip size can also be smaller
>> > than the last detected chip.
>>
>> I'm not sure there is any harm in the smaller case.
>
> Some chips are particular about the addresses that offsets are
> written to and e.g. block erase will not work properly.
>

Actually, I'm not that picky about the patch, but ... I doubt the
flash chips themselves know or care. It's the chipsets (e.g. the
sc520) that are the real trouble.

I am not sure why we have that test for flashbase anyway. What's it
matter? Why do we use the old value for the next value?

ron




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