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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:38 +0200
From:      Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD driver for c't flasher ?
Message-ID:  <20010510123438.A24377@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>

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Hello everybody,

The german computer magazine c't has initiated a project called "c't
flasher" which is actually DIY flash and EEPROM writer and 
software for DOS way back in
1997. This ISA card must be placed into a working computer and then it can read
and write flash and EEPROM chips of eg PCs, but also ISDN PABXs.
The program now supports some 50 chip variants. But porting it to
other OSs is not feasible without a major rewrite because it needs direct
hw access. (the original program is written in Pascal)

Now a project was started on SourceForge to write Linux software for this
device (whose details available from c't) and there is already some
result. The software is realised as a Linux kernel module at present and
controls the device through Linux devices in /dev.

I think given someone with device driver experience it wouldn't be too hard
to do something similar for FreeBSD maybe? The existing code (which is in C
with inline assembler) could even serve as a basis where applicable,
because it is under the BSD license.

The Linux driver project was initiated by Dirk Pfau.
 
For details visit:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctflasher (the project)
http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/flasher/default.shtml (the support area
for the original project by c't)
http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/ea/flasher/flasheng.htm (english
translation of original article)
http://www.heise.de/ct/97/16/176 (the original article in German)

Just thought maybe someone was interested...
-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Szeged University
Szeged Hungary

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