[coreboot] FILO creating filo.conf

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Tue Sep 16 00:36:22 CEST 2008


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

> That would not help for the case where erase is successful and write
> fails. To cover that case, you have to write filo.conf to one free
> block, then erase the other one and write there. Never erase both blocks
> at once.
> You'll see how everything fits together once I post my design doc and patch.

Note ideally you would be able to fit multiple versions of your data
files in the same erase block.  So you can take advantage of the fact
that you can write to an erase block multiple times between erases.

Eric




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