Future of DirectHW

[Thomas Heijligen]

Hi,

is there someone in the flashrom community who has worked with DirectHW
and knows if it's still working on supported MacOS systems?

I want to figure out how to deal with it in the future of flashrom.

-- Thomas

[Stefan Reinauer]

I have not been testing it lately, but I am pretty sure it will need a good
chunk of work to function on newer macOS systems.

Stefan

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 5:24 AM Thomas Heijligen  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there someone in the flashrom community who has worked with DirectHW
> and knows if it's still working on supported MacOS systems?
>
> I want to figure out how to deal with it in the future of flashrom.
>
> -- Thomas

[Andy Pont]

Thomas wrote...
> is there someone in the flashrom community who has worked with DirectHW
> and knows if it's still working on supported MacOS systems?

I haven’t used it before but I do have a macOS system that can be used 
for testing if needed (currently running Monterey 12.2.1).
> I want to figure out how to deal with it in the future of flashrom.

Everything post Mojave (10.14) is 64bit only.  I also seem to recall 
that kernel extensions weren’t the preferred solution any more and that 
system extensions were the way forward.

-Andy.

[Thomas Heijligen]

Hi Andy,

Do you have time to test if flashrom can be build on MacOS with
DirectHW support? I had tried it on a Hackintosh VM but run out of
MacOS knowledge.

With this [1] patch it compiles when providing DirectHW.h in the
include path. only the linking fails. Also I don't know if the kernel
module can be loaded.
Can you have a look at it?

Thanks
-- Thomas

[1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/62929

On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 16:38 +0000, Andy Pont wrote:
> Thomas wrote...
> > is there someone in the flashrom community who has worked with
> > DirectHW
> > and knows if it's still working on supported MacOS systems?
>
> I haven’t used it before but I do have a macOS system that can be
> used 
> for testing if needed (currently running Monterey 12.2.1).
> > I want to figure out how to deal with it in the future of flashrom.
>
> Everything post Mojave (10.14) is 64bit only.  I also seem to recall 
> that kernel extensions weren’t the preferred solution any more and
> that 
> system extensions were the way forward.
>
> -Andy.
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[Andy Pont]

Thomas wrote...
> Do you have time to test if flashrom can be build on MacOS with
> DirectHW support? I had tried it on a Hackintosh VM but run out of
> MacOS knowledge.
>
> With this [1] patch it compiles when providing DirectHW.h in the
> include path. only the linking fails. Also I don't know if the kernel
> module can be loaded.
> Can you have a look at it?

I’ll try to make some time to look at it during this week.

-Andy.

[Thomas Heijligen]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your help.
I've found someone on github has published a patch last year to get
DirectHW compatible with sdk11. I've no idea if this is usefull for use
but may help you getting things running.

https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/directhw/commit/2c1b9d339df313c0f0f288f7...

-- Thomas

On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 07:35 +0000, Andy Pont wrote:
> Thomas wrote...
> > Do you have time to test if flashrom can be build on MacOS with
> > DirectHW support? I had tried it on a Hackintosh VM but run out of
> > MacOS knowledge.
> >
> > With this [1] patch it compiles when providing DirectHW.h in the
> > include path. only the linking fails. Also I don't know if the
> > kernel
> > module can be loaded.
> > Can you have a look at it?
>
> I’ll try to make some time to look at it during this week.
>
> -Andy.
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