On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:32:05 +0200 Bernd Blaauw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op 30-9-2011 19:09, Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello schreef: > > >> I get differences with the previous one. I haven't enter in the bios or > >> change > >> anything... I was expecting no differences between them. Am I missing > >> anything? > >> > >> Regards > >> Jorge > > > > http://flashrom.org/Random_notes#Bios_content_changes_between_reboots > > It might be usefull if Flashrom gets a percentage counter: > > 'file savebios.bin is 99.3% identical to EEPROM contents, continue at > your own risk. It's also 50.0 % identical to file asusbios.bin' > > instead of something along the lines of 'verification failed, file is > corrupt'. > > Above example would also require a way to reference a 2nd file to verify > against. Let's say that 2nd file is an internet-downloaded original > motherboard vendor's BIOS instead of a flashrom dumped file. > > After all, people might want to check if flashrom works correctly before > writing anything. What better way than dump current bios, compare dumped > file to bios but also compare to vendor bios file. All 3 should be > (near-)identical. some additional output in verify mode might indeed be nice. OTOH bsdiff etc might give similar insights - not that terse and "interactively" though. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
