[flashrom] Porting flashrom to OpenBSD

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2010/06/25 19:31, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > On OpenBSD we decided that those /dev/pci write access are similar to
> > /dev/mem access, and thus decided to control it using the same sysctl,
> > in order not to create more knobs. 
> >   
> 
> So if I understand you correctly, full /dev/pci and /dev/mem access
> should be possible with securelevel=0, and we shouldn't screw with
> allowaperture at all?
> No problem, I am happy to change the flashrom docs.

Ah, I've tracked down why securelevel gets changed from 0 to 1
(which is what I was asking about re securelevels). It's init(8).
To avoid this and have /dev/{pci,mem} access on a running system,
temporarily set securelevel=-1 in /etc/rc.securelevel.

> flashrom is something you won't run on every boot, so I think requiring
> securelevel=0 for the few times you need to access flash is perfectly fine.

Agreed.