[flashrom] [PATCH] Warn of one-time programmable (OTP) memory

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0100
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 15.02.2012 14:11 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:55:38 +0100
> > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Now if something is outside the scope of
> >> flashrom, should flashrom care at all?
> > depends... i dont think of "the scope" as a clearly bounded area.
> > everything related to flash chips is somewhat in its scope (else we
> > would not talk about this), heck we even discussed EEPROM handling
> > multiple times... we dont need to support any and all feature found in
> > any flash chip out there, but we should integrate knowledge and code
> > for the more common ones that might be useful, if there is someone
> > willing to provide them (and maintain them if necessary).
> 
> If we target non-flash EEPROMs, we might as well support OTP. I'd say
> such support is post-1.0 material, though (and no, I don't plan to delay
> flashrom 1.0 like Wine 1.0 was delayed).

no, you will tell us that you may tag 1.0 next week - every week :P

> >> Do we warn if a chip has a readonly serial number? That means the chip
> >> can't be cloned. People who care about OTP for clonability reasons
> >> probably care about other readonly contents as well. OTOH, other people
> >> who don't use the OTP at all (for them, OTP is just an accidental
> >> feature of a cheap flash chip) don't want to be bothered by yet another
> >> line of output from flashrom which has no relevancy for them.
> > do you agree to lowering the verbosity of the whole message to dbg
> > level?
> 
> Yes.

done and committed in r1493, one less yay!

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner