[flashrom] [PATCH] Manpage improvements.
Stefan Tauner
stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Feb 15 20:12:29 CET 2012
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:37:31 +0100
Bernd Blaauw <bblaauw at home.nl> wrote:
> Op 15-2-2012 16:23, Stefan Tauner schreef:
> > Also, rephrase the documention related to laptops completely to make it
> > less redundant and more informative.
> > Document the laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop internal programmer parameter
>
> Whatever happened to flashrom's semi-dependency on DMIDECODE?
> I thought flashrom implemented its own dmi-calls since 0.9.4,
sadly not, feel free to review my patch ;)
http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3356/
> but trying
> Idwer's DOS-port (rev1452) and not having DMIDECOD.EXE (yep, 8.3 naming,
> sorry) all I end up with in VMware/FreeDOS is a "hey can't identify
> anything, so this must be a laptop..if not, please override".
more like "it *may* be a laptop, please confirm it is not"
> Overriding still produces the same 'please override' output followed by
> a message that you're overriding, and continues. Ofcourse no single
> emulation platform seems to have a flashrom anyway, so stuff happily aborts.
seems ok to me?
> I guess flashrom could at least continue to try reading without needing
> an override. Erasing and writing ofcourse do require overrides if
> anything is uncertain in advance.
and that guess is wrong. i have been told that *any* unexpected (by the
EC) flash access could lead to annoyances (as described in more detail
now in the manpage...) and that's the reason why we introduce such
seemingly stupid stuff.
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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