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? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
