This one's for Ron.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:32 AM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Build the tool in go. It's trivial. If you have an idea how it ought to work
> I can set it up in the playground in a few minutes.
>
> ron
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:24 AM Patrick Georgi <pgeo...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some mainboards come with soldered-on memory without SPD ROM. For
>> these, we carry the SPD data in coreboot.
>>
>> Currently, they're stored in a hexdump format that is then converted
>> to binary at build time. The various mechanisms of doing so fail on
>> some platform or another:
>> - "echo -e -n $stuff" isn't well-liked by some shells (emits "e -n
>> $stuff")
>> - "printf '\x42'" isn't well-liked by some shells (or /usr/bin/printf
>> tools) that don't support hexadecimal formats
>> - "printf '\0377'" isn't well-liked by some non-conforming, but existing
>> shells
>> - xxd -rg1 $file > $file.bin requires xxd, which comes with vim and
>> may just not exist
>>
>> I see essentially two ways out of this, before we can start reducing
>> duplication across the tree in that area:
>> We could build our own tool to parse hex files and dump binary, or we
>> could ship SPD data as binary from the start (and only have to
>> concatenate them).
>>
>> The second option has the appeal of being much simpler (and there
>> isn't really a "preferred form" for editing SPD data that I'm aware of
>> - is there?), but looks icky at a glance because it's binary (but it's
>> really just as impenetrable as the equivalent hexdump).
>>
>> So what do these files contain? Parameters (as in: facts) about the
>> hardware's size, layout, and timing, and a bunch of vendor/model
>> identifier strings.
>>
>>
>> So, is there a third option that I'm missing? Other opinions?
>> Patrick
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package main
import (
"bufio"
"bytes"
"encoding/hex"
"flag"
"log"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
)
var fileName = flag.String("ifilename", "", "input file to parse")
func readSpd(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
f, err := os.Open(filename)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
data := make([]byte, 0)
s := bufio.NewScanner(f)
s.Split(bufio.ScanLines)
for s.Scan() {
hex := s.Bytes()
if !bytes.Contains(hex, []byte{'#'}) {
data = append(data, hex...)
}
}
s = bufio.NewScanner(bytes.NewBuffer(data))
s.Split(bufio.ScanWords)
data = []byte{}
for s.Scan() {
data = append(data, s.Bytes()...)
}
defer f.Close()
return data, nil
}
func binFileName(name string) string {
dir := filepath.Dir(name)
base := filepath.Base(name)
ext := filepath.Ext(base)
if ext != "" {
upto := len(base) - len(ext)
asSlice := []byte(base)
base = string(asSlice[:upto])
}
return filepath.Join(dir, strings.Join([]string{base, ".bin"}, ""))
}
func main() {
flag.Parse()
if *fileName == "" {
log.Fatal("Need to supply input file.")
}
data, err := readSpd(*fileName)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("File parsing failed. %s\n", err)
}
log.Printf("%v\n", data)
bdata := make([]byte, hex.DecodedLen(len(data)))
_, err = hex.Decode(bdata, data)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Couldn't convert file to binary: %s\n", err)
}
f, err := os.Create(binFileName(*fileName))
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Unable to create binary file: %s\n", err)
}
_, err = f.Write(bdata)
f.Close()
if err != nil {
os.Remove(f.Name())
log.Fatal("Unable to write data to file: %s\n", err)
}
}
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