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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <[email protected]>

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 "
                         "[email protected]\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:

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