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Speakers
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Schedule
Day Saturday
Room Ferrer
Capacity 288
Start time 14:20
End time 14:35
Duration 00:15
Info
Track Lightning Talks

flashrom: Run your BIOS/EFI/firmware updates under any free OS

This talk is a short introduction to flashrom. You will learn about flashrom's features, the reliability promise, how to run a standard BIOS update and how to perform advanced recovery tricks and firmware dumping. Common pitfalls and future directions will be revealed, and you get to watch a live demonstration of a BIOS update without rebooting.

flashrom is the open source utility of choice to identify, read, write, verify and erase flash chips.

flashrom is commonly used to flash BIOS/EFI/firmware from a running Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X, but it also has the ability to reflash graphics cards, SATA controllers, network cards and one game console. A wide variety of external programmers is supported as well, from ultra-cheap homemade setups to high end commercial machines. Hotflashing and crossflashing complete the feature set.

Concurrent events:

When Event Track Where
14:00-14:25 Manos: web apps for the lazy hacker Mono AW1.120
14:00-14:25 Boosting Enterprise MySQL performance: implementing I/O prefetch for InnoDB MySQL & friends H.2213
14:00-14:30 XMPP and Security Jabber & XMPP AW1.121
14:00-14:30 IcedRobot: The GNUlization of Android Free Java AW1.125
14:00-14:40 Dynamic hacking with Guile GNU H.2214
14:00-14:45 Community Anti-patterns Crossdesktop H.1309
14:00-14:50 DevOps? - More than Marketing System Janson
14:00-14:50 The life of a Firefox feature Web Browsing Chavanne
14:00-15:00 Using NixOS for declarative deployment and testing CrossDistro H.1302
14:00-15:00 Swimming Upstream CrossDistro H.1308
14:00-15:00 Advanced Experiments with XMOS Multicore Embedded Hardware. Embedded Lameere
14:00-15:00 mk-configure BSD AW1.126
14:00-15:45 LPI Exam 1 Certification Guillissen
14:00-16:00 TYPO3 Exam Session Certification UA2.114
14:00-16:00 BSD Associate Exam Session Certification UA2.114
14:15-14:45 libcurl: Supporting seven SSL libraries and one SSH library Security & hardware crypto AW1.105
14:15-14:45 LanguageKit - supporting Smalltalk and JavaScript dialects on the Objective-C runtime - what's hard, what's easy, and why developers and users should care. World of GNUstep AW1.117
14:15-14:45 Mapping Wikileaks' Cablegate using Python, mongoDB, Neo4J and Gephi Data Analytics AW1.124
14:30-14:55 Over 20,000QPS, XtraDB performance show MySQL & friends H.2213
14:30-14:55 The Web Objects Kitchen Mono AW1.120
14:30-15:00 Stump the XMPP Experts! Open Q&A Jabber & XMPP AW1.121
14:30-15:00 In-tab UI Mozilla H.1301

Next (up to 3) talks in the same room (Ferrer):

When Event Track
14:40-14:55 0MQ: Multithreading magic Lightning Talks
15:00-15:15 Neo4j: Graph DB and Neo4j introduction Lightning Talks
15:20-15:35 iRail: Creating a public transport API Lightning Talks