[flashrom] [RFC] Layout *file* handling...

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:40:02 -0700
Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org> wrote:

> On 7/11/13 9:42 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> > This is slightly related to the write strategy discussion, so I'll
> > hijack its thread. While rebasing my layout patch set I rewrote the
> > layout file parser. It is now more flexible and it would be easy to
> > support more features. One feature it does already support are comments
> > starting with a # (anywhere in a line).
> >
> > ATM it parses all previously valid layout files (AFAIK) and it should
> > continue to do so, even if they are not too common yet. We do not know
> > the exact numbers of usage, so breaking an unknown number of systems
> > does not seem like a good idea. We could and should provide a script
> > that converts 1.0 files to 2.0 syntax though. That should be trivial
> > anyway.
> Current layout files have not ever been used afaik, except by a customer 
> of mine who went out of business several years ago. Feel free to just 
> deprecate the old format, instead of engineering a tedious migration path.

Hm interesting. I am not so sure about that, but it is certainly not a
much used feature (yet). Which is probably related to the fact, that it
is not very usable as it was. :) OTOH there was a huge interest in that
features in the last months from Intel users due to the ME limitations
(which was also my main motivation to work on it). In any case I don't
think that the migration would be very tedious. Carldani brought up the
compatibility issue back when david wanted to change the address base:
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2010-November/005465.html

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner