[flashrom] Radix for layout ranges

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 23.11.2010 01:11, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:44:10PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> AFAICS that breaks ranges with leading zero, which are assumed to be
>> octal after this change.
>> Besides that, it breaks all existing layout files which are missing the
>> 0x prefix as documented in the man page.
>> The man page has the following layout file example:
>> 00000000:00008fff gfxrom
>> 00009000:0003ffff normal
>> 00040000:0007ffff fallback
>> Note the missing 0x in front of the values.
>>
>> Given that this is a major user interface change, we might as well
>> switch to a new layout file format which has better syntax.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I'd change it to whatever is the best-suited syntax rather sooner
> than later. I doubt this functionality has been used much at all anyway,
> to be honest. I for one didn't ever use or need it so far.
>   

Ron used it, and a few mainboard vendors use it internally.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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