Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010/06/26 14:47, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:53:35 -0400 > Brynet wrote: > > > I know of at least one OpenBSD developer wanting to update their BIOS > > from OpenBSD. > > Sorry, but it's an imperfect world and I'm sure everyone appreciates > your efforts. > > Personally I'd

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:53:35 -0400 Brynet wrote: > I know of at least one OpenBSD developer wanting to update their BIOS > from OpenBSD. Sorry, but it's an imperfect world and I'm sure everyone appreciates your efforts. Personally I'd much prefer using a boot disk (OpenBSD or not) or even a spe

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-25 Thread Brynet
Theo de Raadt wrote: > I would say that, as a general principle -- if you can't find this and fix > it yourself, you probably are unable to evaluate the risk from bypassing > the kernel and talking direct to the hardware. I haven't looked beyond libpci, I was giving a heads up, given that the prob

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Port attached and at http://spacehopper.org/flashrom.tgz; this is > > basically your patches with a typo fixed (missing ; in the Makefile). > > > > You can see exampkle output from an unsuccessful run on amd64 > > attempting to dump rom contents at http://spacehopper.

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-24 Thread Brynet
Stuart Henderson wrote: > Port attached and at http://spacehopper.org/flashrom.tgz; this is > basically your patches with a typo fixed (missing ; in the Makefile). > > You can see exampkle output from an unsuccessful run on amd64 > attempting to dump rom contents at http://spacehopper.org/flashrom

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010/06/25 00:21, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010/06/22 04:02, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > Hi Stuart, hi Ian, > > > > thanks for the enthusiastic response. > > I added a few fixups to the flashrom tree in the meantime to get the > > OpenBSD patch size down a bit. After all, if it gets e

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010/06/22 04:02, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi Stuart, hi Ian, > > thanks for the enthusiastic response. > I added a few fixups to the flashrom tree in the meantime to get the > OpenBSD patch size down a bit. After all, if it gets easier for you to > test, we all win. > > Stuart, if this

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Stuart, hi Ian, thanks for the enthusiastic response. I added a few fixups to the flashrom tree in the meantime to get the OpenBSD patch size down a bit. After all, if it gets easier for you to test, we all win. Stuart, if this works for you, I'll commit the patches into flashrom subversion AS

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-21 Thread Sevan / Venture37
I've got a gateway OEM ASUS board with an outdated bios which I'm happy to test the utility on (can't update the bios with the asus flash tool as the tool doesn't recognise the board though the board is a AsusTek CUR-DLS) Sevan

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010/06/19 12:50, Roberto Fernandez wrote: > 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 ma

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-19 Thread Roberto Fernandez
--- Begin Message --- 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 >

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-18 Thread Ian McWilliam
On 19/06/2010 10:42 AM, 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 flas

Re: Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

2010-06-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
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 net