[coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: Kill obsolete exclude range feature

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Tue Jun 16 14:10:56 CEST 2009


Kill obsolete exclude range feature. It is ignored by almost every chip
and does not work for external flashers. Plus, it gives the user a false
sense of security in some corner cases.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Index: flashrom-kill_exclude_range/flashrom.8
===================================================================
--- flashrom-kill_exclude_range/flashrom.8	(Revision 597)
+++ flashrom-kill_exclude_range/flashrom.8	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@
 .TP
 .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
 Probe only for specified flash ROM chip.
-.TP
-.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
-Exclude start position (obsolete).
 .sp
 flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of
 the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows:
@@ -81,9 +78,6 @@
 flexible and they should lead to a ROM update file format with the
 ROM layout and the ROM image in one file (cpio, zip or something?).
 .TP
-.B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr> 
-Exclude end postion (obsolete).
-.TP
 .B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part>
 Override mainboard settings.
 .sp
Index: flashrom-kill_exclude_range/pm49fl00x.c
===================================================================
--- flashrom-kill_exclude_range/pm49fl00x.c	(Revision 597)
+++ flashrom-kill_exclude_range/pm49fl00x.c	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 
 #include "flash.h"
 
-extern int exclude_start_page, exclude_end_page;
-
 void write_lockbits_49fl00x(chipaddr bios, int size,
 			    unsigned char bits, int block_size)
 {
@@ -64,9 +62,6 @@
 	 */
 	printf("Erasing page: ");
 	for (i = 0; i < total_size / page_size; i++) {
-		if ((i >= exclude_start_page) && (i < exclude_end_page))
-			continue;
-
 		/* erase the page */
 		if (erase_block_jedec(flash, i * page_size, page_size)) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "ERASE FAILED!\n");
@@ -98,9 +93,6 @@
 
 	printf("Programming page: ");
 	for (i = 0; i < total_size / page_size; i++) {
-		if ((i >= exclude_start_page) && (i < exclude_end_page))
-			continue;
-
 		/* erase the page before programming */
 		if (erase_block_jedec(flash, i * page_size, page_size)) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "ERASE FAILED!\n");
Index: flashrom-kill_exclude_range/flashrom.c
===================================================================
--- flashrom-kill_exclude_range/flashrom.c	(Revision 597)
+++ flashrom-kill_exclude_range/flashrom.c	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 #include "flashchips.h"
 
 char *chip_to_probe = NULL;
-int exclude_start_page, exclude_end_page;
 int verbose = 0;
 int programmer = PROGRAMMER_INTERNAL;
 
@@ -425,7 +424,7 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int read_flash(struct flashchip *flash, char *filename, unsigned int exclude_start_position, unsigned int exclude_end_position)
+int read_flash(struct flashchip *flash, char *filename)
 {
 	unsigned long numbytes;
 	FILE *image;
@@ -448,10 +447,6 @@
 	} else
 		flash->read(flash, buf, 0, size);
 
-	if (exclude_end_position - exclude_start_position > 0)
-		memset(buf + exclude_start_position, 0,
-		       exclude_end_position - exclude_start_position);
-
 	numbytes = fwrite(buf, 1, size, image);
 	fclose(image);
 	free(buf);
@@ -581,8 +576,6 @@
 	     "   -E | --erase:                     erase flash device\n"
 	     "   -V | --verbose:                   more verbose output\n"
 	     "   -c | --chip <chipname>:           probe only for specified flash chip\n"
-	     "   -s | --estart <addr>:             exclude start position\n"
-	     "   -e | --eend <addr>:               exclude end postion\n"
 	     "   -m | --mainboard <[vendor:]part>: override mainboard settings\n"
 	     "   -f | --force:                     force write without checking image\n"
 	     "   -l | --layout <file.layout>:      read ROM layout from file\n"
@@ -640,7 +633,6 @@
 
 	char *filename = NULL;
 
-	unsigned int exclude_start_position = 0, exclude_end_position = 0;	// [x,y)
 	char *tempstr = NULL, *tempstr2 = NULL;
 
 	print_version();
@@ -695,14 +687,6 @@
 			}
 			erase_it = 1;
 			break;
-		case 's':
-			tempstr = strdup(optarg);
-			sscanf(tempstr, "%x", &exclude_start_position);
-			break;
-		case 'e':
-			tempstr = strdup(optarg);
-			sscanf(tempstr, "%x", &exclude_end_position);
-			break;
 		case 'm':
 			tempstr = strdup(optarg);
 			strtok(tempstr, ":");
@@ -817,7 +801,7 @@
 				printf("Run flashrom -L to view the hardware supported in this flashrom version.\n");
 				exit(1);
 			}
-			return read_flash(flashes[0], filename, exclude_start_position, exclude_end_position);
+			return read_flash(flashes[0], filename);
 		}
 		// FIXME: flash writes stay enabled!
 		exit(1);
@@ -881,7 +865,7 @@
 		if (erase_flash(flash))
 			return 1;
 	} else if (read_it) {
-		if (read_flash(flash, filename, exclude_start_position, exclude_end_position))
+		if (read_flash(flash, filename))
 			return 1;
 	} else {
 		struct stat image_stat;
@@ -908,27 +892,6 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* exclude range stuff. Nice idea, but at the moment it is only
-	 * supported in hardware by the pm49fl004 chips. 
-	 * Instead of implementing this for all chips I suggest advancing
-	 * it to the rom layout feature below and drop exclude range
-	 * completely once all flash chips can do rom layouts. stepan
-	 */
-
-	/* FIXME: This code is totally broken. It treats exclude ranges as include ranges. */
-	// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-	if (exclude_end_position - exclude_start_position > 0)
-		chip_readn(buf + exclude_start_position,
-			   flash->virtual_memory + exclude_start_position,
-			   exclude_end_position - exclude_start_position);
-
-	exclude_start_page = exclude_start_position / flash->page_size;
-	if ((exclude_start_position % flash->page_size) != 0) {
-		exclude_start_page++;
-	}
-	exclude_end_page = exclude_end_position / flash->page_size;
-	// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-
 	// This should be moved into each flash part's code to do it 
 	// cleanly. This does the job.
 	/* FIXME: Adapt to the external flasher infrastructure. */


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