[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

[Aarya Chaumal]

Hi Thomas,

Can overlapping regions in the layout file cause problems or lead to
ambiguous results. If yes, then I think we should do the checks.

Aarya.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:48 PM Thomas Heijligen  wrote:
> On 26 March 2022 05:44:56 WET, Aarya Chaumal 
> wrote:
> Hi Aarya,
> > I performed (read, write, erase) on specific regions of the flash using
>
> the
> > layout file. Do the regions in the layout file have to be exclusive or
>
> they
> > can overlap?
>
> A flashrom layout region is just a name with a start and end address.
> There are no checks for overlapping regions. The parsing of a layout file
> is done by layout_from_file() in layout.c
>
> -- Thomas