On 06.03.2010 14:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 06.03.2010 10:03, Jason Wang wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Darmawan Salihun wrote: >> >>> Flashrom used to have Windows port that I worked on back in 2007 >>> (Winflashrom). I'm willing to help if any student want to port to >>> Windows 7. I'm not a student anymore ;-) >>> >>> >> i am thinking who about making flashrom can be used under windows? >> >> > > I think Stefan Reinauer already ported flashrom to Windows 7, AFAIK > somewhat based on the original Windows port. Look here: > http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-August/000239.html . > Darmawan, it would be cool if you could look at this as well. flashrom > now has a lot better abstraction than back when you did the original > Windows port, and merging Stefan's patch should be possible. It's been a > while, but I think DirectIO for Windows hasn't been released yet. >
To summarize: I don't think porting flashrom to Windows would be a good GSoC task. Porting flashrom to DOS would be interesting, but I have no idea if our coding style allows usage of old compilers for DOS. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- "I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's most valuable treasures." -- Donald E. Knuth -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
