[flashrom] [PATCH] Handle denied access to cbtable gracefuly

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Vincent,

can you please try this patch on top of an unmodified flashrom source?
It is available for download at http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/861/raw/

On 01.02.2010 05:41, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Stefan: Could you please test this one on Mac OS X? In theory it should
> even allow us to kill the start=0x400 special case for Mac OS X.
>
> Create a physical memory mapping function which requests cached readonly
> memory. This should take care of picky Linux kernels which do not allow
> uncached mappings to cached areas.
> Handle mapping failure gracefully (no forced exit()) if the caller
> specifies it.
>
> Such cached areas which can handle mapping failure are DMI tables and
> coreboot tables. On retry and repeated failure we just ignore those
> tables. That is not perfect, but a lot better than aborting flashrom due
> to an error in nonessential functionality.
>
> This should fix flashrom on a sizable number of machines where it
> currently aborts early.
>
> Yes, I could have exploited a Linux kernel bug to "solve" this, but
> relying on such bugs is not exactly the best idea.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
>   

Please run "flashrom -V", send us the output and if detection works for
you, please add the following line to your mail:
Acked-by: Vincent Pelletier <your at email.address>

Thanks.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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