Re: [flashrom] flashrom on PowerPC

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:16:44 +0100
Peter Lemenkov  wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> 2011-10-23 0:20 GMT+02:00 Stefan Tauner :
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:20:19 +0200
> > Mattias Mattsson  wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was able to run flashrom under Linux on PPC (big endian) hardware
> > > with two small modifications in internal.c and processor_enable.c (see
> > > attached patch). Not sure if this is the right way to do it but it
> > > seems to work for me.
> >
> > i am resending this patch (unchanged) because patchwork did not pick it
> > up correctly. please do send one patch per mail only in the future
> > until we have something really working. :)
>
> Sorry for bringing up this again but what's the status of this? It
> does works on old PPC-based Apple Macs and it still applies cleanly.
> Maybe it's time to apply this, otherwise we won't see any potential
> users very soon :)

Hi Peter,

it does not apply to the current version, but that's not the issue. It
seems like a simple hack that was not thought through completely and I
certainly won't merge it as is. IMHO the things mentioned in the
comment in internal.c below the single hunk needs to be addressed
first. I am not sure ATM what that even means and won't look into it
soon. Also, I don't think it would even work in its current form (no
programmer registration happens there that was introduced since the
original patch)...