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

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 13:27 +0000, 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?

For some chips/chipsets it already works. They would be MTD devices. And
you can then use a flash file system on (part of) them, if they're big
enough, etc.

-- 
dwmw2

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