[flashrom] [PATCH] ichspi: ignore bogus FREGs.

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Aug 27 17:13:35 CEST 2012


On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:36:53 +0200
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Some vendors forget to disable regions properly and set their FRAP bits
> and FREG to 0. While not documented publicly this is being ignored by the
> chipset(s)[1] and hence flashrom should do so too. Without this patch
> flashrom prints a warning and disables writes.
> The check for i (region index) excludes the descriptor region which should
> not be becessary because specs suggest that the descriptor region should not
> be locked, but if vendors would follow the specs this patch would not have
> been necessary in the first place.
> 
> [1]: http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-May/009303.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>

committed in r1587.
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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