[flashrom] [coreboot] [PATCH] Raw payload extraction support in cbfstool

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Sep 29 01:27:47 CEST 2010


[adding flashrom at flashrom.org to CC]

On 28.09.2010 22:16, Aurélien wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>> Aurélien wrote:
>>     
>>>>> I tried to make a patch which reads from /dev/mem directly in 2 ways:
>>>>>  - mmap()ing /dev/mem, but it seemed that it would be too specific a
>>>>> modification to be accepted.
>>>>>           
>>>> See http://stuge.se/physrd.c for a fairly generic tool to do this.
>>>>         
>>> You're right, splitting the feature in two tools seems much more
>>> correct. This way we can extract the ROM image, then extract the
>>> specific payload.
>>>       
>> Well, for that purpose it's much better to simply use flashrom.
>>
>>     
> Probably, but flashrom takes slighly more time due to various calibration
> routines (I could not find a way to disable those, but I didn't try very
> hard), 

If you already have a known-good delay function with microsecond
precision, you could use that instead of waiting for flashrom to
calibrate its own delay loop.


> and is less integrable that just reading like this. I don't need much
> portability between mainboards anyways.
>   

Yes, libflashrom is still not completely done. Most of the parts are
there, and we even have a bunch of different frontends, but the exported
interface needs to be decided upon before we start offering libflashrom


> In the general case however, you are right, the flashrom method seems much
> more robust.
>   

Thanks!

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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