[flashrom] DOS version of flashrom

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 22/05/2010 23:55, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> Andrew Goodbody wrote:
>> On 19/05/2010 23:26, Rudolf Marek wrote:
>> 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.

Ahh, OK.

>>> 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.

Sounds like some more comments and possibly a patch for the README are 
needed? BTW when running dmidecode standalone I get a complaint about 
/dev/mem not existing so I obviously missed something there as well.

Thanks again,
Andrew