[Bug 938156] Re: FFE: Sync flashrom 0.9.5+r1503-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Luke Yelavich]

This bug was fixed in the package flashrom - 0.9.5+r1503-1
Sponsored for Stefan Tauner (stefanct)

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flashrom (0.9.5+r1503-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/docs: Add mysteries_intel.txt.

 -- Uwe Hermann <uwe at debian.org>  Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:54:48 +0100

** Changed in: flashrom (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  FFE: Sync flashrom 0.9.5+r1503-1 (universe) from Debian unstable
  (main)

Status in “flashrom” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
   affects ubuntu/flashrom
   subscribe ubuntu-release

  hi!

  i am one of the upstream maintainers and would like to request to sync
  0.9.5 of our package from debian.
  I have attached the Changelog diff that contains all upstream commits
  since 0.9.4 (which was packaged for Debian and synced to Ubuntu 11.10
  and 12.04 before), but it is rather large.
  It is probably better to look at our release notes here:
  http://flashrom.org/Flashrom/0.9.5

  Also, the pbuilder-dist precise build log is appended. I have also
  verified basic operation with our built-in dummy programmer in a
  precise QEMU VM (i386).

  I would like to see 0.9.5 in the next LTS release mainly because of two
  reasons:
  1. Newer Intel-based mainboards are often locked down so flashrom can
     not access the flash chip to update the BIOS (the common use case
     of flashrom, especially with Ubuntu). The new release adds better
     support for Intel-based mainboards and prints more precise and
     easier to understand messages to the user in the case a board is
     locked down.
  2. Support for SFDP was added in 0.9.5 which allows flashrom to support
     new flash chips without having all properties hard-coded beforehand.
     So if a user buys a new mainboard with a yet unreleased flash chip
     holding the BIOS he might be able to update the firmware without
     getting/building an updated binary.

  But there are also lots of other useful changes since 0.9.4 which was
  released last summer. OTOH there are not many reasons to not sync
  flashrom. There are not many dependencies and afaik no dependents at
  all. There are no known regressions yet.

  As mentioned in the release notes above the current SFDP implementation
  is a bit buggy regarding erase operations. This will be fixed shortly
  in an exceptional service release tagged 0.9.5.1 (for which i would
  file another FFE, if this one gets ACKed. It that the correct
  procedure?).

  The new Debian package contains a patch that disables (the newly added)
  support for the Linux kernel's SPI driver, because of dependency
  problems with non-Linux kernels in Debian. This could be probably
  dropped and replaced with a dependency on the linux kernel headers for
  Ubuntu already (will be done so in Debian ASAP), but is not a big issue
  for most Ubuntu users i guess.
  -- 
  Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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