Hi Zvi,
On 10/5/18 8:46 PM, Zvi Vered wrote:
According to the help of flashrom, it works with bin files only. So I should take coreboot.rom and stitch it to the parts of the original vendor's bin file.
there is no standard for neither .bin nor .rom files. Most often these file-name extensions just mean the file contains raw data.
If any program implies a special meaning to .rom or .bin, then that meaning is vendor specific.
So to flashrom, .rom and .bin is the same. Flashrom doesn't look at the file contents at all. It just copies them to the flash chip (much like the `dd` command copies file contents no matter what they are).
If you tell flashrom to write a complete file that doesn't contain a firmware descriptor, then the system can't boot anymore. But if you have a descriptor and other required firmware parts in the flash already, you can tell flashrom to only flash the BIOS region, e.g.:
# flashrom -p ... --ifd -i bios -w coreboot.rom
This is just more convenient and reliable than stitching files (but the result should be the same).
Nico
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Nico Huber