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

[Darmawan Salihun]

Hi,

Peter Stuge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:02:50PM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote:
>   
>>    Is it acceptable to do direct port I/O through driver for I/O
>> port accesses (other than the PCI bus accesses). I still couldn't
>> figure out the solution for this kind of problem.
>>     
>
> Ahh - for enabling flash writes. Well - the alternative is to have
> all flash enabling code and logic within the kernel driver but
> that's not very attractive.
>
> Do you know if the IO can be limited to just a few explicitly allowed
> ports?
>   
Well, that shouldn't be a problem. I mean it can be easily implemented
in the driver. But, I need to know
which I/O address range that would be ;-). All I know in detail right
now is Winbond_I/O_chip-specific
because I've only been working with it.

--Darmawan

> //Peter
>
>