[flashrom] idea: make flashrom a "driver" in linux kernel

[Brian Rak]

Wouldn't this basically be the equivalent of the mtd subsystem?

On 1/30/2014 8:27 AM, The Gluglug wrote:
> Basically,
>
> /dev/spi
> This would be your flash chip, enumerated using flashrom.
>
> flashrom -r equivalent:
> dd if=/dev/spi of=dump.rom
>
> flashrom -w eqivalent:
> dd if=coreboot.rom of=/dev/spi
>
> Where SPI is the internal SPI chip on your motherboard.
> If (using flashrom as the backend) the linux kernel supports your 
> flash chip, you could just use dd.
>
> What does the community think of this idea?
>
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