[flashrom] BX100: there is a Linux tool to flash ROM images through any SATA adapter

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 12.01.2016 20:57, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:47:43 +0100
> Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at elstel.org> wrote:
>
>>  I would love to see HDD/SSD 
>> firmware flashing being supported by flashrom through some more SATA 
>> controllers.
> Unless it supports at least some kind of addressing I don't deem it
> within the scope of flashrom. Just reading a complete file and piping
> it into an API (which library do they use BTW?) is nothing exciting that
> requires the whole infrastructure of flashrom.
> By addressing I mean e.g. a way to write only part of the underlying
> flash memory.

We do support some PCIe based SSDs with Marvell controllers (see
satamv.c), but in that case it's the SATA host controller (which is part
of the PCIe SSD), not the device behind a SATA interface.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel