On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
Aurélien wrote:
> > > I tried to make a patch which reads from /dev/mem directly in 2 ways:
> > >  - mmap()ing /dev/mem, but it seemed that it would be too specific a
> > > modification to be accepted.
> >
> > See http://stuge.se/physrd.c for a fairly generic tool to do this.
>
> You're right, splitting the feature in two tools seems much more
> correct. This way we can extract the ROM image, then extract the
> specific payload.

Well, for that purpose it's much better to simply use flashrom.

 
Probably, but flashrom takes slighly more time due to various calibration routines (I could not find a way to disable those, but I didn't try very hard), and is less integrable that just reading like this. I don't need much portability between mainboards anyways.

In the general case however, you are right, the flashrom method seems much more robust.

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Aurélien Guillaume