[flashrom] DOS version of flashrom

Rudolf Marek r.marek at assembler.cz
Sun May 23 00:55:46 CEST 2010


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Hi,

Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> On 19/05/2010 23:26, Rudolf Marek wrote:
>> I think you need also
>>
>> djcrx-2.04pre_20090725-13ap.i386.rpm
> 
> Indeed that was the missing part from the instructions in the README.

Aha OK we need to add it there.

> However the binary I end up with is over 400KB as opposed to the 170KB
> or so for the version that you build but that's only a minor issue.

I used objcopy and did coff-go32 from the exe and then I catenated with
CWDPMI server binary and I compressed that with upx.

> 
>> The dmidecode misses the build instruction but I think it was pretty
>> straightforward.
> 
> OK I got that to compile with a few suitable tweaks. However it still
> does not get executed by flashrom on an 8.3 file system as 'dmidecode'
> is 9 characters long.

It works for me with Freedos because it handle long filenames. For future
there is a plan to get rid of dmidecode and do it without external binary.

Thanks,
Rudolf
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