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On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 01:42:08AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2010/06/19 02:33, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm one of the lead developers of flashrom, a GPLv2 application to
> > read/write/erase flash chips on mainboards, network/storage/graphics
> > cards and external programmers. Some people use flashrom to update their
> > BIOS/EFI or to add netbooting functionality to their network cards, or
> > to recover misflashed mainboards. Having to boot DOS/Windows to perform
> > those tasks is something many people would like to avoid, and being able
> > to work with flash chips from your favourite OS is definitely easier
> > than navigating in unknown waters.
> > If you want to learn more about flashrom, please visit
> > http://www.flashrom.org/
> >
> > flashrom works on
> > Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/DragonFlyBSD/OpenSolaris/MacOSX/DOS, and OpenBSD is
> > the last remaining major UNIX-like OS which wasn't supported until now.
> >
> > I have two patches which get flashrom to compile on OpenBSD on i386, and
> > they should work on amd64 as well. Those patches will be merged into the
> > official flashrom source tree once I know that they work. The big
> > obstacle for me is that I don't own any OpenBSD machine, and all I have
> > is shell access to a public OpenBSD i386 shell server. flashrom is
> > pretty small, you can compile it in ~5 seconds on a reasonably fast
> > machine, so compile testing shouldn't need too much time.
> >
> > How do I proceed? Ask for testers? Send the patches (or links to the
> > patch downloads) to this list?
>
> If you send me the patches I'll write a port Makefile for it.
> Then it's easier for people to test. Compile testing is no problem
> but I don't have any machines that I can spare to test actual bios
> updates on though.
A way to reduce risks on these tests is here:
http://www.biosman.com/biosrecovery.html
I never tested this myself, I have no floppy drive :(
> It would be great to have flashrom working on OpenBSD.
>
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