[flashrom] [PATCH] Annotate evil twins

Daniel Lenski dlenski at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 15:43:15 CEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:54 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Evil twins are chips with identical IDs and different/incompatible
> characteristics (e.g. eraseblock layout, write strategy or size).
> Annotate them so flashrom can tell the user that it's not a matter of
> simply picking one of the chips in a list of multiple chips found.
> 
> This patch only touches the AMIC A25L40PT and A25L40PU.
> I'm fairly sure there are more evil twins, but those two were touched
> recently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

I should point out that the A25L40PT and A25L40PU got erase-tested by
Rudolf Marek while we were trying to figure out if they were really evil
twins.  My patch added the erase-tested bit, but I think you took this
out.

Dan





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