| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger |
| Schedule | |
| Day | Sunday |
| Room | AW1.105 |
| Start time | 12:45 |
| End time | 13:00 |
| Duration | 00:15 |
| Info | |
| Event type | Podium |
| Track | Alt-OS |
| Language | English |
Porting challenge: Flashrom, the universal flash tool
Flashrom is the open source utility of choice to read and write flash chips and a real porting challenge because it needs full hardware access from userspace.
Some say that only X.org needs a similar level of hardware access. Flashrom is working under Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X and Windows (somewhat) and people use it to reflash BIOSes, graphics/network/SATA cards, a game console and to control a boatload of external flash programmers.
This talk gives a short overview of flashrom and its architecture, and then goes into detail about the work needed to port it to your favourite OS.
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