Looks pretty good to me. FWIW, we implemented something nearly identical in the chromiumos branch a few years ago: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/10180/ (we called it "--diff"). It's been quite useful for development, especially when working with large chips and slow external programmers.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr> wrote:
Hi,

Could we get the review moving on this patch? I first sent it over 4 months ago
and got no feedback. I'd really like to have this feature merged, as I'm using
it very often!

Thanks

Le lundi 29 février 2016 à 19:44 +0100, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit :
> When developing software that has to be flashed to a flash chip to be
> executed,
> it often takes a long time to read the current flash contents (for flashrom to
> know what pages to erase and reprogram) each time, when writing the new image.
> However, when the flash was just reprogrammed, its current state is known to
> be
> the previous image that was flashed (assuming it was verified).
>
> Thus, it makes sense to provide that image as a file for the flash contents
> instead of wasting valuable time read the whole flash each time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>
> ---
>  cli_classic.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  flash.h       |  2 +-
>  flashrom.c    | 14 +++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cli_classic.c b/cli_classic.c
> index a2c2014..dc0164d 100644
> --- a/cli_classic.c
> +++ b/cli_classic.c
> @@ -44,24 +44,25 @@ static void cli_classic_usage(const char *name)
>              "[-E|(-r|-w|-v) <file>] [-l <layoutfile> [-i <imagename>]...]
> [-n] [-f]]\n"
>              "[-V[V[V]]] [-o <logfile>]\n\n", name);
>  
> -     printf(" -h | --help                        print this help text\n"
> -            " -R | --version                     print version
> (release)\n"
> -            " -r | --read <file>                 read flash and save to
> <file>\n"
> -            " -w | --write <file>                write <file> to flash\n"
> -            " -v | --verify <file>               verify flash against
> <file>\n"
> -            " -E | --erase                       erase flash memory\n"
> -            " -V | --verbose                     more verbose output\n"
> -            " -c | --chip <chipname>             probe only for specified
> flash chip\n"
> -            " -f | --force                       force specific operations
> (see man page)\n"
> -            " -n | --noverify                    don't auto-verify\n"
> -            " -l | --layout <layoutfile>         read ROM layout from
> <layoutfile>\n"
> -            " -i | --image <name>                only flash image <name>
> from flash layout\n"
> -            " -o | --output <logfile>            log output to
> <logfile>\n"
> -            " -L | --list-supported              print supported
> devices\n"
> +     printf(" -h | --help                          print this help text\n"
> +            " -R | --version                       print version
> (release)\n"
> +            " -r | --read <file>                   read flash and save to
> <file>\n"
> +            " -w | --write <file>                  write <file> to
> flash\n"
> +            " -v | --verify <file>                 verify flash against
> <file>\n"
> +            " -E | --erase                         erase flash memory\n"
> +            " -V | --verbose                       more verbose output\n"
> +            " -c | --chip <chipname>               probe only for
> specified flash chip\n"
> +            " -f | --force                         force specific
> operations (see man page)\n"
> +            " -n | --noverify                      don't auto-verify\n"
> +            " -l | --layout <layoutfile>           read ROM layout from
> <layoutfile>\n"
> +            " -i | --image <name>                  only flash image <name>
> from flash layout\n"
> +            " -o | --output <logfile>              log output to
> <logfile>\n"
> +            " -C | --flash-contents <contentsfile> assume flash contents
> to be <contentsfile>\n"
> +            " -L | --list-supported                print supported
> devices\n"
>  #if CONFIG_PRINT_WIKI == 1
> -            " -z | --list-supported-wiki         print supported devices
> in wiki syntax\n"
> +            " -z | --list-supported-wiki           print supported devices
> in wiki syntax\n"
>  #endif
> -            " -p | --programmer <name>[:<param>] specify the programmer
> device. One of\n");
> +            " -p | --programmer <name>[:<param>]   specify the programmer
> device. One of\n");
>       list_programmers_linebreak(4, 80, 0);
>       printf(".\n\nYou can specify one of -h, -R, -L, "
>  #if CONFIG_PRINT_WIKI == 1
> @@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>       enum programmer prog = PROGRAMMER_INVALID;
>       int ret = 0;
>  
> -     static const char optstring[] = "r:Rw:v:nVEfc:l:i:p:Lzho:";
> +     static const char optstring[] = "r:Rw:v:nVEfc:l:i:C:p:Lzho:";
>       static const struct option long_options[] = {
>               {"read",                1, NULL, 'r'},
>               {"write",               1, NULL, 'w'},
> @@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>               {"force",               0, NULL, 'f'},
>               {"layout",              1, NULL, 'l'},
>               {"image",               1, NULL, 'i'},
> +             {"flash-contents",      1, NULL, 'C'},
>               {"list-supported",      0, NULL, 'L'},
>               {"list-supported-wiki", 0, NULL, 'z'},
>               {"programmer",          1, NULL, 'p'},
> @@ -128,6 +130,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>       };
>  
>       char *filename = NULL;
> +     char *contentsfile = NULL;
>       char *layoutfile = NULL;
>  #ifndef STANDALONE
>       char *logfile = NULL;
> @@ -221,6 +224,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>                               cli_classic_abort_usage();
>                       }
>                       break;
> +             case 'C':
> +                     contentsfile = strdup(optarg);
> +                     break;
>               case 'L':
>                       if (++operation_specified > 1) {
>                               fprintf(stderr, "More than one operation "
> @@ -332,6 +338,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>       if (layoutfile && check_filename(layoutfile, "layout")) {
>               cli_classic_abort_usage();
>       }
> +     if (contentsfile && check_filename(contentsfile, "contents")) {
> +             cli_classic_abort_usage();
> +     }
>  
>  #ifndef STANDALONE
>       if (logfile && check_filename(logfile, "log"))
> @@ -542,7 +551,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>        * Give the chip time to settle.
>        */
>       programmer_delay(100000);
> -     ret |= doit(fill_flash, force, filename, read_it, write_it, erase_it,
> verify_it);
> +     ret |= doit(fill_flash, force, filename, contentsfile, read_it,
> write_it, erase_it, verify_it);
>  
>       unmap_flash(fill_flash);
>  out_shutdown:
> @@ -554,6 +563,7 @@ out:
>       layout_cleanup();
>       free(filename);
>       free(layoutfile);
> +     free(contentsfile);
>       free(pparam);
>       /* clean up global variables */
>       free((char *)chip_to_probe); /* Silence! Freeing is not modifying
> contents. */
> diff --git a/flash.h b/flash.h
> index dc5c140..2cf7ca6 100644
> --- a/flash.h
> +++ b/flash.h
> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ void print_buildinfo(void);
>  void print_banner(void);
>  void list_programmers_linebreak(int startcol, int cols, int paren);
>  int selfcheck(void);
> -int doit(struct flashctx *flash, int force, const char *filename, int
> read_it, int write_it, int erase_it, int verify_it);
> +int doit(struct flashctx *flash, int force, const char *filename, const char
> *contentsfile, int read_it, int write_it, int erase_it, int verify_it);
>  int read_buf_from_file(unsigned char *buf, unsigned long size, const char
> *filename);
>  int write_buf_to_file(const unsigned char *buf, unsigned long size, const
> char *filename);
>  
> diff --git a/flashrom.c b/flashrom.c
> index d5c3238..d11f89d 100644
> --- a/flashrom.c
> +++ b/flashrom.c
> @@ -1978,8 +1978,9 @@ int chip_safety_check(const struct flashctx *flash, int
> force, int read_it, int
>   * but right now it allows us to split off the CLI code.
>   * Besides that, the function itself is a textbook example of abysmal code
> flow.
>   */
> -int doit(struct flashctx *flash, int force, const char *filename, int
> read_it,
> -      int write_it, int erase_it, int verify_it)
> +int doit(struct flashctx *flash, int force, const char *filename,
> +      const char *contentsfile, int read_it, int write_it, int erase_it,
> +      int verify_it)
>  {
>       uint8_t *oldcontents;
>       uint8_t *newcontents;
> @@ -2068,7 +2069,14 @@ int doit(struct flashctx *flash, int force, const char
> *filename, int read_it,
>        * preserved, but in that case we might perform unneeded erase which
>        * takes time as well.
>        */
> -     if (read_all_first) {
> +     if (contentsfile) {
> +             msg_cinfo("Reading old flash chip contents from file... ");
> +             if (read_buf_from_file(oldcontents, size, contentsfile)) {
> +                     ret = 1;
> +                     msg_cinfo("FAILED.\n");
> +                     goto out;
> +             }
> +     } else if (read_all_first) {
>               msg_cinfo("Reading old flash chip contents... ");
>               if (flash->chip->read(flash, oldcontents, 0, size)) {
>                       ret = 1;

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