On 02/10/07 11:32 -0600, Lane Brooks wrote:
Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 02/10/07 18:27 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Dear Lane!
Thank you very much for your patch.
- Lane Brooks lbrooks@MIT.EDU [071002 18:20]:
- It seems like there should be a way to revert the msr back after
flashing is completed to put the bios back in write protect mode. Is there a cleanup mechanism available? Something like disable_flash...
Unfortunately no. Any patches that generically implement such a mechanism are welcome though!
+#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <sys/stat.h> +#include <fcntl.h> +#include <unistd.h>
- unsigned long addr = 0x1808;
- lseek64(fd_msr, (off64_t) addr, SEEK_SET);
Why do you use/need large file support for seeking to an offset of 0x1808 ?
Thats original generic MSR behavior from rdmsr/wrmsr - we need the large file support to access the high MSRs (0x80000000) and above. Its not needed in this case - but is it hurting?
Jordan
Jordan brings up a point that I forgot to mention previously. This is my first time contributing to an open source project, and I am not extremely familiar with protocols in terms of acknowledging code. I based this patch on rdmsr/wrmsr code I found on the OLPC webpage, and it seems attributable to Ron Minnich. Should I acknowledge this fact in the code?
I can't remember if it was Ron or I that wrote them - maybe a little of both. Those were good times.. :)
Anyway - I am of the opinion that this code is of such trival nature that it borders on the obvious - its neither enlightening nor novel - and as such attribution probably isn't called for - unless you really want to.
Jordan