[coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: Improve coreboot image detection heuristic
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Jul 3 16:42:39 CEST 2008
On 03.07.2008 16:37, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> Improve coreboot image detection heuristic in flashrom. It's not
>> absolutely perfect, but the likelihood of this check to fail is
>> 0.000000000000000000000000013 (1.3*10^-26) which is good enough for me.
>
> I think at some point we should go to a better concept of doing
> things, but it seems what you are saying is that your code will
> probably not fail on any bios that has been developed to date, as I
> doubt it is more than 10^26 bioses.
I calculated the likelihood of a false positive detection of coreboot
for a random image. All reports we got about segfaults will be fixed as
well, so I'm reasonably positive this bandaid will last.
> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
Thanks, r3408.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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