From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 10 3:34:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (sol.serv.u-szeged.hu [160.114.51.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA3C37B423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 03:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id MAA08172; Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:39 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xnmJ-0007bG-00 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:39 +0200 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:38 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD driver for c't flasher ? Message-ID: <20010510123438.A24377@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message