#104: flashrom: Partial operations; change flash drivers to not erase in the write function -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: stuge | Owner: hailfinger Type: enhancement | Status: assigned Priority: major | Milestone: flashrom v1.0 Component: flashrom | Version: Keywords: partial erase write | Dependencies: Patchstatus: there is no patch | -----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
Comment(by stuge):
"If current flash bits look like we might be able to write without erase" is a heuristic and since it's impossible to know how many times the flash chip has already been written to in order to get the current contents a heuristic isn't useful.