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	This talk gives a short overview of flashrom and its architecture, and then goes into detail about the work needed to port it to your favourite OS.		This talk gives a short overview of flashrom and its architecture, and then goes into detail about the work needed to port it to your favourite OS.
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	== Flashrom speed talk at Alt-OS devroom ==		== Flashrom speed talk at Alt-OS devroom ==
		+	Proposed time: Sunday 12:45-13:00
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	Porting challenge: Flashrom, the universal flash tool		Porting challenge: Flashrom, the universal flash tool

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	The [http://www.fosdem.org FOSDEM website] contains tons of information on the event itself, transportation, getting around in brussels, finding hotels, pretty much everything you need. Next to that, there are [http://www.fosdem.org/2010/archives archives] of the website for the previous years, where you can find out about previous talks and shedules.		The [http://www.fosdem.org FOSDEM website] contains tons of information on the event itself, transportation, getting around in brussels, finding hotels, pretty much everything you need. Next to that, there are [http://www.fosdem.org/2010/archives archives] of the website for the previous years, where you can find out about previous talks and shedules.
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		+	== Flashrom speed talk at Alt-OS devroom ==
		+	Porting challenge: Flashrom, the universal flash tool
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		+	Flashrom is the open source utility of choice to read and write flash chips and a real porting challenge because it needs full hardware access from userspace. Some say that only X.org needs a similar level of hardware access. Flashrom is working under Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X and Windows (somewhat) and people use it to reflash BIOSes, graphics/network/SATA cards, a game console and to control a boatload of external flash programmers.
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		+	This talk gives a short overview of flashrom and its architecture, and then goes into detail about the work needed to port it to your favourite OS.

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 * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger - Flashrom, the universal flash tool.
-Flashrom is the open source utility of choice to identify, read, write, verify and erase flash chips. It is commonly used to flash BIOSes from under Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X, but it also has the ability to reflash graphics cards, SATA controllers, network cards and a game console. A wide variety of external programmers is supported as well, from ultra-cheap homemade setups to high end commercial machines. Hotflashing and crossflashing complete the feature set. This talk introduces flashrom, and explains its structure and implementation. Common issues and future directions are explained, and even a demonstration will be given.
+Flashrom is the open source utility of choice to identify, read, write, verify and erase flash chips. It is commonly used to flash BIOSes from under Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X, but it also has the ability to reflash graphics cards, SATA controllers, network cards and one game console. A wide variety of external programmers is supported as well, from ultra-cheap homemade setups to high end commercial machines. Hotflashing and crossflashing complete the feature set. This talk introduces flashrom, and explains its structure and implementation. Common issues and future directions are explained, and even a demonstration will be given.
 * Luc Verhaegen - Flash enable BIOS reverse engineering.

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 * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger - Flashrom, the universal flash tool.
-Flashrom is the open source utility of choice for flash chips, and can identify, read, write, verify and erase them. It is commonly used to flash BIOSes from under Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X, but it also has the ability to reflash graphics cards, SATA controllers, network cards and a game console. A wide variety of external programmers is supported as well, from ultra-cheap homemade setups to high end commercial machines. Hotflashing and crossflashing complete the feature set. This talk introduces flashrom, and explains its structure and implementation. Common issues and future directions are explained, and even a demonstration will be given.
+Flashrom is the open source utility of choice to identify, read, write, verify and erase flash chips. It is commonly used to flash BIOSes from under Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X, but it also has the ability to reflash graphics cards, SATA controllers, network cards and a game console. A wide variety of external programmers is supported as well, from ultra-cheap homemade setups to high end commercial machines. Hotflashing and crossflashing complete the feature set. This talk introduces flashrom, and explains its structure and implementation. Common issues and future directions are explained, and even a demonstration will be given.
 * Luc Verhaegen - Flash enable BIOS reverse engineering.

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 * Rudolf Marek - ACPI and Suspend/Resume under coreboot.
-Ever wanted to know more about ACPI? The aim of this talk is to introduce the software part of ACPI as well as provide the necessary hardware details to get the bigger picture. A tour through the Coreboot ACPI implementation will be given, and the suspend and resume procedure will be presented with all nifty details explained.
+Ever wanted to know more about ACPI? This talk will introduce the software part of ACPI as well as provide the necessary hardware details to get the bigger picture. A tour through the Coreboot ACPI implementation will be given, and the nitty-gritty details of the suspend and resume procedure will be explained.
 * Rudolf Marek - coreboot board porting
-You don't like your BIOS? Want coreboot instead? Here is my story... This talk introduces some strategies for porting coreboot to new hardware. We go over the information gathering stage, data-mining, datasheet usage and common gotchas. The porting of new motherboard but with existing chipset support is explained.
+You don't like your BIOS? Want coreboot instead? Here is my story... This talk introduces some strategies for porting coreboot to new hardware. We go over the information gathering stage, data-mining, datasheet usage and common gotchas. The porting of a new motherboard but with existing chipset support, as well as kick-starting a new chipset port, are explained.
-Kickstarts to new chipsets ports included.
-* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger - Flashrom.
+* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger - Flashrom, the universal flash tool.
-* Luc Verhaegen - Flash Enable BIOS Reverse Engineering.
+Flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is commonly used to flash BIOSes from under linux, but has wider uses and possibilities. This talk introduces flashrom, and explains it's structure and implementation. Common issues and future directions are explained, and even a demonstration will be given.
-Many board makers provide extra write protection for their bioschips. The developers at the flashrom project have to devote part of their time on finding out what protection is provided and how this can be disabled. Some of this information comes from the BIOS itself, and the procedures for some common BIOSes, and the tools involved will be introduced in this talk. Half of the time will be spent on digging through an actual BIOS with a crude tool like ndisasm.
+* Luc Verhaegen - Flash enable BIOS reverse engineering.
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 * Peter Stuge - coreboot introduction
-The BIOS and it's successor EFI are considered by many to be the final frontier for open source software in commodity PCs. This talk introduces the open source BIOS replacement coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) and the projects that surround it, including many popular payloads that combine with coreboot to make up an incredibly full-featured firmware for PCs. The talk also looks at the 10 year long history of the project, describes the current state of development and considers some possibilities for the future.
+The BIOS and it's successor EFI are considered by many to be the final frontier for open source software in commodity PCs. This talk introduces the open source BIOS replacement coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) and the projects that surround it, including many popular payloads that combine with coreboot to make up an innovative firmware for PCs. The talk also looks at the 10 year long history of the project, describes the current state of development and considers some possibilities for the future.
 * Peter Stuge - coreboot and PC technical details

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 * Peter Stuge - coreboot and PC technical details
-A modern PC is quite different from the 1980s original, and even if the BIOS lingers after 30 years it must now take on many complex challenges. When the original PC with it's pre-ISA expansion bus was powered on, the system was almost immediately ready to run an application. Today's PC can have several multicore CPUs interconnected by HyperTransport, Front Side Bus or QuickPath, DDR3 RAM on each CPU, and a large number of buses and peripherals, most of which require initialization with varying degrees of complexity to be implemented in software. This talk describes the technical challenges encountered by coreboot developers and their solutions.
+A modern PC is quite different from the 1980s original, and while the BIOS still lingers after 30 years it must now solve many tricky problems. When the original PC with it's pre-ISA expansion bus was powered on, it was almost immediately ready to run an application. Today's PC can have several multicore CPUs interconnected by HyperTransport, Front Side Bus or QuickPath, DDR3 RAM on each CPU, and a large number of buses and peripherals. Many components require increasingly complex initialization to be implemented in software. This talk describes the technical challenges encountered by coreboot developers and their solutions.
 * Rudolf Marek - ACPI and Suspend/Resume under coreboot.