On 29.09.2010 14:35, Ben Hutchings wrote:

On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 00:41 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
  

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[adding flashrom@flashrom.org to CC, senders will be whitelisted after a
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On 28.09.2010 19:59, Ben Hutchings wrote:
    

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Network and disk controllers normally have at least some firmware in
flash to support their use as boot devices. [...]
  
      

Given that the flashrom utility <http://www.flashrom.org/> (GPLv2)
supports flashing many network cards, SATA/PATA controllers, graphics
cards, and of course the main system firmware/BIOS/EFI, and it does that
from userspace without any kernel support,
    

[...]

I'm looking for a clean solution, not a hack.
  

What would qualify as a clean solution? And is cross-platform code one
of your goals?


Regards,
Carl-Daniel