[OLPC-devel] Re: olpcflash 0.1.0 Alpha

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Aug 16 12:14:48 EDT 2006


Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [060816 18:03]:
> 
>>I doubt it. I seperated out because we're going to want a lot of special 
>>OLPC stuff in there. I thought pretty hard about this, maybe I'm wrong, 
>>but it's a way different flash model than the flashrom.
> 
>  
> Might we see this flash model in other boxes as well?
> 

I sure hope not. But maybe. It's your call. But flashrom assumes an 
mmap'able flash part. olpcflash assumes you have a ACPI-style controller 
to talk to. They're very different models.

ron



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