[coreboot] flashrom FreeBSD port

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu May 22 09:11:46 CEST 2008


On 22.05.2008 05:16, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:35:41AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>   
>> Changes to make flashrom compile (and work) on FreeBSD.
>> This patch addresses different argument order of outX() calls,
>> FreeBSD-specific headers, difference in certain type names and system
>> interface names, and also FreeBSD-specific way of gaining IO port
>> access.
>>     
>
> This doesn't solve a general problem.  There isn't a standard wrapper
> around I/O-space access functions.  For instance the functions that
> do this on on NetBSD recently were made kernel-only.
>
> The solution I'd like to see is for a program that needs I/O-space
> access to supply it's own wrapper.  Not that I'm expecting this
> to change ...
>   

The good thing is that the patch Andriy sent will allow us to use any
wrapper for NetBSD once we try to support it. I'll commit the patch soon.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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