On 29.09.2010 15:10, Ben Hutchings wrote:

On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 14:45 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
  

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On 29.09.2010 14:35, Ben Hutchings wrote:
    

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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,
    
        

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

What would qualify as a clean solution?
    

One where hardware access is mediated by the kernel, and doesn't involve
unloading or potentially conflicting with the driver for that hardware.
  

flashrom can ask the kernel driver to "please stop accessing flash". No
unloading needed, no conflict in place.

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And is cross-platform code one of your goals?
    

Not at this level.  At the application level, yes, but we already have a
working application so I'm not interested in using flashrom for that.
  

I see. Just because I'm interested in how other flashing applications
solve this: Does that application work on *BSD as well? And could you
tell me the name of the app so I can take a look at it? Thanks.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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