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

Darmawan Salihun darmawan.salihun at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 11:42:47 CEST 2007


Hi all,

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> [070621 01:00]:
>   
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:45:15PM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote:
>>     
>>> flashrom also maps the low 1MB for certain purposes.
>>>       
>> Do you know why?
>>     
>
> For reading the LinuxBIOS table.
> I unified memory mapping in LinuxBIOS a bit a while ago. There are a
> lot less places in the code where this happens now. Hope that's of some
> use for your project.
>   
I see. I'll have a look at it more closely.

Anyway, what is the zlib library used for? 

Is the binary from LinuxBIOS build (presumably the payload) compressed 
using some functions in zlib?

--Darmawan




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