hello, my honor! I am very interested in the program of flashrom,especially of the edition in windows,now I had worked on it for a few months,but there is some questions I couldn't understand, I wonder if you could offer me some help.The questions are showed as below: * 1,what's the use of the source code "Board_enable.c"? It looks so strange to me that I hardly understand? How I get something helpful? * 2,In order to modify the program under GNU,how can I test it? And how to debug it in details in windows? Is there any software ? * 3,As it is a complex program, where can I find out all the datasheets suitable? Are they free? I am looking forward your answers and please reply as soon as possible . My best wishes! james
On 8/8/09 9:31 AM, zhou wrote:
hello, my honor! I am very interested in the program of flashrom,especially of the edition in windows,now I had worked on it for a few months,but there is some questions I couldn't understand, I wonder if you could offer me some help.
I recently ported Darmawan's Windows port to the latest flashrom svn tree. Check http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-August/000229.html for a patch against r670
The questions are showed as below: * 1,what's the use of the source code "Board_enable.c"? It looks so strange to me that I hardly understand? How I get something helpful?
Many boards have a hardware mechanism for protecting write access to the flash chip. This mechanism can be software triggered by changing a GPIO line. The code to change these GPIOs is in board_enable.c, for those mainboards that need it.
* 2,In order to modify the program under GNU,how can I test it? And how to debug it in details in windows? Is there any software ?
Not sure I understand what you want to do here. The GNU development environment contains a debugger, gdb. I think that debugger would also be available under msys/mingw.
* 3,As it is a complex program, where can I find out all the datasheets suitable? Are they free?
Well, some of them are freely available, others are not. For some you need an NDA with the hardware vendor.
I am looking forward your answers and please reply as soon as possible . My best wishes!
Best of luck,
Stefan
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