[flashrom] [PATCH] Add mediatek_pata programmer

[Joseph Smith]

On Mon,  7 Mar 2011 01:05:03 +0100, Michael Karcher
<flashrom at mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Add support for flashing using CD/DVD drives with mediatek chipsets.
> 
> As the driver is now, it only supports parallel ATA drives with parallel
> flash chips. The kind of drive access needed is not possible through IDE
> drivers in the OS, flashrom has to access the IDE port directly. This
will
> interfere with OS drivers for the drive, so you better make sure that
> the OS does not access the drive (or another drive on the same PATA
> channel)
> during the flash process.
> 
> On recent linux kernels (with libata), the invocation
> "-p mediatek_pata:devname=sr0" should work. It is supposed to forcibly
> unregister all drives on the IDE channel sr0 is on (you better don't have
> a file system mounted on a hard drive on the same channel), perform the
> flash job, and, if the drive successfully reboots, re-add all detectable
> IDE devices on that channel.
> 
> This patch is known to lack a man page section and violate the flashrom
> coding style in some places - I send it out to catch some early reviews
> on it.
> 
This is really cool :-)
It also opens the door to another pata flasher:

http://www.loet.de/flasher_en.html

Great work!

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org