[LinuxBIOS] RFC Winflashrom Architecture -- Current device driver (testbed)

[Jeremy Jackson]

A 16MB top window seems to be a generic window, most APIC/IOAPIC are
mapped at 4GB - 20MB IIRC

My dream is to have a chip specific driver (map driver in MTD terms)
which knows the window size the BIOS hardware decoder supports,
including the optional enable bits.

The chip driver also interacts with Linux /dev/iomem to reflect the
current setting of the optional enables.

It should also update the below 1MB (and maybe below 16MB) aliases
in /proc/iomem, according to their actual status in the hardware.  For
example, the K8 northbridge fixed MTRRs could be disabled, rendering any
aliasing of the southbridge or LPC/FWH parts moot (from the processor's
perspective at least)

There is a similar (lack of) infrastructure issue with lmsensors ATM,
might be interesting to watch progress there

Regards,

Jeremy

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 18:00 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:47:59PM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote:
> > I know, it's not a good example of software engineering practice.
> > Nonetheless, I want to discuss, on which API that I should be
> > removing from user mode application accesses and which one to
> > retain.
> 
> I couldn't make out much of it.
> 
> Again, I think the evolution goes like this:
> 
> 1. Kernel driver allowing unrestricted reads and writes to top 16MB.