[flashrom] [commit] r1822 - trunk

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Author: hailfinger
Date: Tue Jun 17 00:36:17 2014
New Revision: 1822
URL: http://flashrom.org/trac/flashrom/changeset/1822

Log:
EEPROM support: handle implicit erase

Add support for EEPROMs with 1 byte granularity and implicit erase on
write. flashrom will not try to erase before write on these chips.
Explicitly requested erase with -E is done by writing 0xff.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Modified:
   trunk/flash.h
   trunk/flashrom.c

Modified: trunk/flash.h
==============================================================================
--- trunk/flash.h	Fri Jun 13 00:57:36 2014	(r1821)
+++ trunk/flash.h	Tue Jun 17 00:36:17 2014	(r1822)
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
 	write_gran_528bytes,	/* If less than 528 bytes are written, the unwritten bytes are undefined. */
 	write_gran_1024bytes,	/* If less than 1024 bytes are written, the unwritten bytes are undefined. */
 	write_gran_1056bytes,	/* If less than 1056 bytes are written, the unwritten bytes are undefined. */
+	write_gran_1byte_implicit_erase, /* EEPROMs and other chips with implicit erase and 1-byte writes. */
 };
 
 /*

Modified: trunk/flashrom.c
==============================================================================
--- trunk/flashrom.c	Fri Jun 13 00:57:36 2014	(r1821)
+++ trunk/flashrom.c	Tue Jun 17 00:36:17 2014	(r1822)
@@ -766,6 +766,10 @@
 	case write_gran_1056bytes:
 		result = need_erase_gran_bytes(have, want, len, 1056);
 		break;
+	case write_gran_1byte_implicit_erase:
+		/* Do not erase, handle content changes from anything->0xff by writing 0xff. */
+		result = 0;
+		break;
 	default:
 		msg_cerr("%s: Unsupported granularity! Please report a bug at "
 			 "flashrom at flashrom.org\n", __func__);
@@ -807,6 +811,7 @@
 	switch (gran) {
 	case write_gran_1bit:
 	case write_gran_1byte:
+	case write_gran_1byte_implicit_erase:
 		stride = 1;
 		break;
 	case write_gran_256bytes: