Re: [coreboot] [flashrom] [announce] flashrom 1.0

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Hi,

Le mercredi 03 janvier 2018 à 15:34 +0300, Ivan Ivanov a écrit :
> Please tell - are there any real reasons why the Paul Kocialkowski's
> KB9012 support patches
> still cannot be merged? It is very discouraging - after 2 years of
> waiting to not see them at 1.0
> Is there any way to get these patches merged, and maybe re-tag the
> flashrom 1.0 release ?

We have been discussing about the future of these patches and they
cannot be accepted as-is today. Mostly, Nico was worried that issuing
SPI commands for the EDI protocol might cause some chips to misbehave if
these commands have another signification. I think this is a valid
concern.

We agreed that one way to solve this would be to create groups for
probing, e.g. one with jedec-compliant chips (default) and one for ene
chips, so that only one group is probbed at the same time.

I did not have the time to implement this idea yet, so it will block
kb9012 inclusion for now. If you'd like to go ahead and implement this
feature, I'd be happy to review your patches!

Cheers,

Paul
> 2017-12-30 23:49 GMT+03:00 Ivan Ivanov :
> > Hi Nico, please could you also merge the KB9012 patches by Paul
> > Kocialkowski :
> >
> > https://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/4412/
> > https://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/4413/
> > https://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/4414/
> >
> > It is ridiculous how these patches are still not merged , after
> > almost
> > 2 years... :P
> > These patches are adding the support for KB9012 reading / writing,
> > the only open source flashing solution for these embedded
> > controllers
> >
> > Merging these patches could accelerate the development of Origami EC
> > libre firmware,
> > please do it
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ivan Ivanov
>
> 2018-01-03 0:50 GMT+03:00 Nico Huber :
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > flashrom-1.0 is out! finally. It's not a very big version step in
> > terms
> > of changes, but it was about time and we thought with the switch
> > over to
> > Git it's the right moment for 1.0.
> >
> > Here are the release notes:
> > https://flashrom.org/Flashrom/1.0
> >
> > If you don't use Git, you can find a tarball here:
> > https://download.flashrom.org/releases/flashrom-1.0.tar.bz2
> >
> > Thanks to everybody supporting flashrom and this release in
> > particular.
> >
> > Nico
> >
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