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author | hailfinger <hailfinger@2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1> | 2010-04-28 15:22:14 +0000 |
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committer | hailfinger <hailfinger@2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1> | 2010-04-28 15:22:14 +0000 |
commit | c0a76f5940ce3d802cc3ecaa2d7c16c5c34cb0d0 (patch) | |
tree | 88f216baf356f0e22fb8c8f7733ca9f175bd1545 /ft2232_spi.c | |
parent | 6cf27267fce651ed67c2300239386882a0daf769 (diff) | |
download | flashrom-c0a76f5940ce3d802cc3ecaa2d7c16c5c34cb0d0.tar.gz |
--force may have been a good idea back when only developers were using
flashrom, but over the last few months we've seen too many people who
incorrectly believed that --force would solve anything.
One of the problems is that --force had multiple meanings:
- Force chip read by faking probe success.
- Force chip access even if the chip is bigger than max decode size for
the flash bus.
- Force erase even if erase is known bad.
- Force write even if write is known bad.
- Force writing even if cbtable tells us that this is the wrong image
for this board.
This patch cleans up --force usage:
- Remove any suggestions to use --force for probe/read from flashrom
output.
- Don't talk about "success" or "Found chip" if the chip is forced.
- Add a new internal programmer parameter boardmismatch=force. This
overrides any mismatch detection from cbtable/image comparisons.
- Add a new internal programmer parameter laptop=force_I_want_a_brick.
- Adjust the documentation for --force.
- Clean up the man page a bit whereever it talks about --force or
laptops.
Additional changes in this patch:
- Add warnings about laptops to the documentation.
- Abort if a laptop is detected. Can be overridden with the programmer
parameter mentioned above.
- Add "Portable" to the list of DMI strings indicating laptops.
- Check if a chip specified with -c is known to flashrom.
- Programmer parameter reliability and consistency fixes.
- More paranoid self-checks.
- Improve documentation.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Michael Karcher <flashrom@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
git-svn-id: https://code.coreboot.org/svn/flashrom/trunk@996 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
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