[coreboot] FILO creating filo.conf

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 16.09.2008 01:57, Joseph Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:59:32 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> On 16.09.2008 00:36, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>       
>> Absolutely. That's what I had in mind.
>>
>>     
> Hmm, very interesting. So ideally we could add a unique identifier each
> time filo.conf is written. Something like filo.conf.001, filo.conf.002 and
> so on. This way if the new config fails you would still have the previous
> to revert back to, correct?
>   

That's a possible solution as well. I had something different in mind.
You'll see once I post my design doc and patch. Since you're leading the
filo.conf storage effort, you get to choose.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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