[flashrom] FYI: flashrom output for Altera EPCQ16

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Jul 1 10:49:59 CEST 2016


On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:21:54 +0000
"Ma, Peter" <peter.ma at intel.com> wrote:

> I understand the not wanting to allow casual users to not accidentally mis-program their BIOS.  But it does make flashrom not very useful for non-BIOS uses -- like programming FPGA bitstreams, etc.

One more thing regarding that: the way to go in that case at least for
now is to pad the payload data with 0xFF to reach the flash chip size
(either in front or back of the payload depending on the application's
need).
Cf. https://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2013-October/011828.html
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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