Re: [Arm-netbook] identification eeprom: data layout

Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo <at> kde.org> writes:

There is no page index. Variable length pages without an accompanying index means that it is not possible to seek directly to a given page; however given the relatively small size of the IDS, the small number of pages and that the headers allow skipping from page to page this is deemed acceptable.

Would you please educate me (and others may be interested) why to not use an index? Do we expect pages to be added frequently, requiring rewriting an index (and thus shifting all contents)? Do we expect that people will get it wrong? Is the initialization environment so constrained that it cannot even use an index?

Derek