Adding disk firmware programming capability to camcontrol

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 21:38:34 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Nima Misaghian <nmisaghian at sandvine.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have got code developed by Andre Albsmeier that is capable of
> programming firmware of hard drives from several vendors and  turned
> it into a camcontrol command.
>
> The posted patch (against RELENG_8_2) basically adds the following new
> command to camcontrol:
>
> camcontrol fwdownload [device id] [generic args] <-f fw_image> [-s]
>
> I would appreciate it if FreeBSD experts in this area of code would
> take the time to review this patch.

This is awesome! I'm not a CAM expert, but I'll definitely take a look
it this weekend.
-Garrett


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