[OLPC-devel] olpc flash program.

[Ronald G Minnich]

I have a simple first cut at an olpc flash program.

DO NOT RUN THIS PROGRAM UNLESS YOU WANT TO FRY YOUR BOARD. I MEAN IT. IF 
YOU RUN THIS, AND YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, YOU'LL HAVE A NICE WALL HANGING 
INSTEAD OF AN OLPC.

There, if you're still here, you are like me and have no sense.

It uses the EC. I am including:
inb so you can inb by hand
outb ...
kb.c, which can be used to disable keyboard. I am not sure it is needed.
and olpcflash, which tries to use the ec to flash. No guarantee it is 
right, although a short session indicates it is reading flash correctly.

The manual on the EC is kind of tough to follow, so some of what I do is 
guesswork.

OK, so this is a modified linuxbios flashrom program. It's still pretty 
rough. What I am hoping is one of you can try this:

olpcflash -i 0x381 -V -r spi.img

and send my any/all output. My OLPC board seems to have died ... I don't 
think due to this program, boards don't like being left on a table and 
handled, they all go poof! at some point.

Anyways, um, I think I need another board .... how do I get one? How 
much trouble am I in since I maybe drove my OLPC over a cliff :-)

thanks

ron
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