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The rationale is to warn users when they, for example, try to flash a 512KB parallel flash chip but their chipset only supports 256KB, or they try to flash 512KB and the chipset _does_ theoretically support 512KB but their special board doesn't wire all address lines and thus supports only 256 KB ROM chips at maximum. This has cost Uwe hours of debugging on some board already, until he figured out what was going on. We should try warn our users where possible about this. The chipset and the chip may have more than one bus in common (e.g. SB600 and Pm49* can both speak LPC+FWH) and on SB600/SB7x0/SB8x0 there are different limits for LPC and FWH. The only way to tell the user about the exact circumstances is to spew error messages per bus. The code will issue a warning during probe (which does fail for some chips if the size is too big) and abort before the first real read/write/erase action. If no action is specified, the warning is printed anyway. That way, a user can find out why probe might not have worked, and will be stopped before he/she gets incorrect results. Add a bitcount function to the infrastructure. Corresponding to flashrom svn r755. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flashrom README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flashrom is a utility for detecting, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can program flash chips. It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, and TSOP40 chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI. Packaging --------- To package flashrom and remove dependencies on subversion, either use make export or make tarball make export will export all flashrom files from the subversion repository at revision BASE into a directory named $EXPORTDIR/flashrom-$VERSION-r$SVNREVISION and will additionally modify the Makefile in that directory to contain the svn revision of the exported tree. make tarball will simply tar up the result of make export and gzip compress it. The snapshot tarballs are the result of make tarball and require no further processing. Build Instructions ------------------ To build flashrom you need to install the following packages or ports: Linux et al: * pciutils / libpci * pciutils-devel / pciutils-dev / libpci-dev * zlib-devel / zlib1g-dev (only needed if libpci is static) On FreeBSD, you need the following ports: * devel/gmake * devel/libpci To compile on Linux, use: make To compile on FreeBSD, use: gmake To compile on Nexenta, use: make To compile on Solaris, use: gmake LDFLAGS="-L$pathtolibpci" CC="gcc -I$pathtopciheaders" CFLAGS=-O2 To compile on DragonFly BSD, use: ln -s /usr/pkg/include/pciutils pci gmake CFLAGS=-I. LDFLAGS="-L/usr/pkg/lib" To compile and run on Darwin/Mac OS X: Install DirectIO from coresystems GmbH. DirectIO is available at http://www.coresystems.de/en/directio. Installation ------------ In order to install flashrom and the manpage into /usr/local, type: make install For installation in a different directory use DESTDIR, e.g. like this: make DESTDIR=/usr install If you have insufficient permissions for the destination directory, use sudo by adding sudo in front of the commands above. Usage / Options --------------- Please see the flashrom(8) manpage. Exit status ----------- Please see the flashrom(8) manpage. coreboot Table and Mainboard Identification -------------------------------------------- Please see the flashrom(8) manpage. ROM Layout Support ------------------ Please see the flashrom(8) manpage. Supported Flash Chips / Chipsets / Mainboards --------------------------------------------- Please check the output of 'flashrom -L' for the list of supported flash chips, chipsets/southbridges, mainboards, and flash programmers. Contact ------- The official flashrom website is: http://www.flashrom.org/ The IRC channel is #flashrom at irc.freenode.net The Mailing list addess is flashrom@flashrom.org