[LinuxBIOS] flashrom utility

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi,

I would like to reduce the address output during flashing, verifying etc
in the flashrom utility. Instead of printing each address, it would be 
sufficient to write every 256th address or even every 4096th address:

so we could write
                if (verbose && ((i&0xfff)==0))
                        printf("0x%08x", i);

instead of
                if (verbose)
                        printf("0x%08x", i);

The reason is if you are writing/verifying flash on a reasonably slow
serial console it will take several hours (and hopefully not mess with
the flash timing)

any vetos?

Stefan

[ron minnich]

On 3/15/06, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to reduce the address output during flashing, verifying etc
> in the flashrom utility. Instead of printing each address, it would be
> sufficient to write every 256th address or even every 4096th address:

Do it. I had to do this in my private copy the time I flashed 1024 machines
all at once. It just was not that fun watching every one of the 1024
machines print out every address. Even on a Myrinet-connected machine, it
was S*L*O*W.

I think it's a great idea.

ron