[flashrom] Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

Ian McWilliam kaosagnt at tpg.com.au
Mon Jun 28 16:06:33 CEST 2010


On 28/06/2010, at 6:41 PM, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:38:30PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> 
>> Could I ask you to write one or two short sentences which will be
>> printed if flashrom detects insufficient permisions on OpenBSD? Maybe
>> something like this (feel free to change it completely):
> 
>> "Error: Insufficient permissions to access hardware. Please set
>> securelevel=-1 in /etc/rc.securelevel and reboot, or reboot into single
>> user mode."
>> 
> 
> This message looks good to me. You could add "See the securelevel(7)
> and init(8) manual pages for details".
> 
> Thanks for your work on this port.
> -- 
> Matthieu Herrb
> 
> 


I think in the port we could probably add a README.OpenBSD file where
we could explain the situation in more detail like we do for many other ports
stored in the share/doc/flashrom directory as well.




Ian McWilliam







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