[flashrom] [patch] partial write test script

[David Hendricks]

New version, more bug fixes. Thanks for Carl-Daniel for testing!
- Restore the original ROM before beginning the second set of tests.
- The last iteration of the second test (un-aligned partial writes) was
causing problems on a 128KB part (emulated). I've removed it for now since
I'm in a hurry to get out tonight.
- Fixed a copy + paste error in the 4k aligned test layout.
- Added $FLASHROM_PARAM to the list of parameters passed into Flashrom.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:33 PM, David Hendricks <dhendrix at google.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:42 PM, David Hendricks <dhendrix at google.com>wrote:
>
>> After a few tries at manually verifying partial writes and realizing that
>> it's awfully tedious to do any exhaustive testing, I hastily threw together
>> a shell script to help automate the process. Since there are others on this
>> list doing similar things, I figured it might be helpful to throw it up
>> here.
>>
>> Note: It's unfinished and probably has bugs, but I figure it's at least a
>> start, even if only to kickstart a conversation about how to test partial
>> writes in a standard and useful manner.
>>
>
> idwer already noticed at least one issue, so I attempted to correct it
> along with a couple others.
>
> - Default path for flashrom binary should be "../flashrom" since that is
> where a user will typically have built a fresh binary. This can be
> overridden easily.
> - Suppressed some annoying output from "dd" command.
> - Implemented better checks for uuencode and pre-installed (assumed to be
> stable) flashrom binary.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hendricks <dhendrix at google.com>
>
> --
> David Hendricks (dhendrix)
> Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.
>



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David Hendricks (dhendrix)
Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.
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