Re: [flashrom] flashrom on PowerPC

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 02:50:38AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Excellent work!
>
> The LH28F008BJT patch is
> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

This was r1420.
> The Am29LV008BB patch is
> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

This was r1421.
> The PPC patch itself needs more work:
> We need to match the chipset/machine somehow to avoid disasters on
>
> untested machines. While that may not be 100% required, I'm wary of
> bricked machines on an architecture I don't own.
> A chipset match where buses_supported = BUS_PARALLEL is set.
> A chipset match where you check if the flash chip is accessible...
>
> comparing lspci --xxx between flash enabled and flash disabled boots
> might shed some light on this. Then again, maybe that setting isn't
> visible in PCI space and such a check is futile.
> Side note: Not your fault, but we really need a way for a chipset
>
> enable function to tell internal_init that it should return an error.
> Maybe a special return code for a chipset enable?

Mattias, can you take a look at the issues above? Is it possible to do
such chipset matches etc.?

Thanks, Uwe.