Seems like a multi-purpose piece of rope that would be both useful and have the potential side effect of removing some noise from misc@. :-) ok krw@ fwiw.
.... Ken On 30 May 2016 at 18:50, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > ---- > flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying > and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS, EFI, coreboot, > firmware and optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage > controller cards, and various programmer devices. > ---- > > This uses a patched pciutils to emulate 8/16-bit writes, diff from > an old ports@ post from Carl-Daniel Hailfinger. As it requires write > access to /dev/mem it will not run on a normally booted OpenBSD > system; there is a README that makes it clear that one should not > take it lightly and advises running it only in single user mode > (both so that write access can be done, and so that network > services aren't running). > > OK to import it? It's been useful for me while building new APU > boxes and I know a few other people have been using old versions > of this on openbsd-wip for the same. >
