[coreboot] FILO creating filo.conf

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Tue Sep 16 00:59:32 CEST 2008


On 16.09.2008 00:36, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> writes:
>
>   
>> That would not help for the case where erase is successful and write
>> fails. To cover that case, you have to write filo.conf to one free
>> block, then erase the other one and write there. Never erase both blocks
>> at once.
>> You'll see how everything fits together once I post my design doc and patch.
>>     
>
> Note ideally you would be able to fit multiple versions of your data
> files in the same erase block.  So you can take advantage of the fact
> that you can write to an erase block multiple times between erases.
>   

Absolutely. That's what I had in mind.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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