From: UDENIX <udenix@firemail.cc>
Subject: Re: flashprog
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:08:48 +0200

The user Anon Loli is requesting a port of flashprog for OpenBSD, likely 
because the Libreboot project has been using flashprog since January 27, 
2024. Flashprog is a fork of flashrom.

Regarding Libreboot, I would like to share two important points for 
everyone's information:

1. To install Libreboot from OpenBSD, you must either boot the system in 
single-user mode or temporarily set securelevel(7) to insecure mode and 
reboot the computer in order to use flashprog.

2. I recommend reading this excellent article written by Leah Rowe, 
which critiques the absurdity of the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) 
criteria for considering an operating system or piece of hardware as 
"free." Unfortunately, the article has since been removed from the 
Libreboot project website, and I am unaware of the reasons for its removal.

The article can still be accessed via the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240507041617/https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html