[coreboot] flashrom patch: Force read unknown flash chips

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Peter,


as always I can just comment on the messages. I hope someone else will
ack this patch, since Carl-Daniel is idle for a while.


Am Sonntag, den 15.06.2008, 04:53 +0200 schrieb Peter Stuge:
> @@ -427,6 +428,44 @@
>                 exit(1);
>         } else if (!flashes[0]) {
>                 printf("No EEPROM/flash device found.\n");
> +               if (!force || !chip_to_probe) {
> +                       printf("If you know which flash chip you have and if this version of flashrom\n");
> +                       printf("supports a similar flash chip, you can try a force read. Run:\n");

Here you say “force read”.

> +                       printf("flashrom -f -r -c similar_supported_flash_chip filename\n");
> +                       printf("\n");
> +                       printf("Note: flashrom can never write when the flash chip isn't found automatically.\n");
> +               }
> +               if (force && read_it && chip_to_probe) {
> +                       printf("Detected forced read (-f -r -c options) - forcing chip probe success.\n");

Here you say “forced read”.

> +                       flashes[0] = probe_flash(flashchips, 1);
> +                       if (!flashes[0]) {
> +                               printf("flashrom does not support the flash chip '%s'.\n", chip_to_probe);
> +                               printf("Run flashrom -L to print a list of the supported hardware in this version.\n");

Native speakers, is the article “the” correct here?


Thanks,

Paul
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