Revision as of 00:35, 19 August 2011

You can browse the flashrom source code online, or download and install flashrom and/or its source code as explained below.

Installation from source

Requirements:

pciutils development package (pciutils-dev/libpci-dev/pciutils-devel, depending on OS/distribution)
zlib development package (zlib1g-dev/zlib-devel, depending on OS/distribution)
libftdi development package (libftdi-dev), optional support for the external FT2232SPI flasher
various build utilities like make, gcc etc. (build-essential or similar depending on OS/distribution)
subversion (if you checkout the source and build manually)

Manual installation from source:

If you just want to use the latest release, download flashrom 0.9.4 (source) here (GPG signature). Older releases can be found here.

If you want the latest source code (for developers), check out our code from subversion:

$ svn co svn://flashrom.org/flashrom/trunk flashrom
$ cd flashrom
$ make
$ sudo make install

"sudo make install" is optional: you can run flashrom from its subversion directory with "sudo ./flashrom"

You can also download source code snapshots here.

IRC nicknames are mentioned in parentheses.

Arch Linux:
- Installation: pacman -S flashrom
- Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora
- package overview, bugreports, git repo

Debian:
- Installation: sudo aptitude install flashrom
- Maintainer: Uwe Hermann (uwe_ / uw3)
- package overview, build logs, more build logs, package popularity, bugreports

DOS:
- Installation: download files from http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/
- Maintainer: Idwer Vollering (idwer)
- A DOS binary can be cross compiled using Linux. Instructions on how to compile can be found in the README. Also general instuctions available on the DOS page.

DragonFly BSD:
- Installation: pkg_add flashrom
- Maintainer: Jonathan Kollasch (jakllsch)
- ?

Fedora:
- Installation: sudo yum install flashrom
- Maintainer: Peter Lemenkov
- package overview, bugreports, git repo, build logs, package updates

FreeBSD:
- Installation from ports: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/flashrom && make install clean
- Installation using a package: pkg_add -r flashrom
- Maintainer: Alexander Logvinov
- The version from subversion's trunk (latest revision while editing is r1416) is usable as well. To checkout and compile the source code you need to install devel/gmake, devel/libpci, devel/subversion and sysutils/dmidecode, either from ports or using "pkg_add -r". The subversion URI is at the top of this page. Compile with "gmake".

Gentoo:
- Install: emerge flashrom
- Maintainer: Mart Raudsepp (leio), Christian Ruppert (idl0r), Peter Stuge (CareBear\)
- package overview, bugreports, forums, upstream scanner

Mandriva:
- Installation: urpmi flashrom
- Maintainer: Alexander Khryukin
- svn repo, bugreports

NetBSD:
- Installation: pkg_add flashrom
- Maintainer: Jonathan Kollasch (jakllsch)
- package overview, netbsdpkgsrc info, CVS repo

OpenBSD:
- Installation: ?
- Maintainer: ?
- TODO: Are there any ports or binary packages for OpenBSD? Building from source is supported as per README.

openSUSE:
- Installation: yast -i coreboot-utils
- Maintainer: Stefan Reinauer (Stepan)
- package overview, flashrom packages, coreboot-utils packages, requests, bugreports

PC-BSD
- Installation: currently there is no PBI (http://www.pbidir.com/bt/category/sysutils) but the installation instructions to install on FreeBSD can be used. See ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/handbook/handbook_en_ver8.2.html#__RefHeading__223_1034146141
- Maintainer: ?
- ?

Source Mage GNU/Linux:
- Installation: cast flashrom
- Maintainer: Quentin Rameau (quinq)
- package files

T2 SDE
- Installation from source: Emerge-Pkg flashrom
- Installation of binaries: mine -i flashrom-0.9.1.tar.bz2
- Maintainer: ?
- ?

Ubuntu:
- Installation: sudo aptitude install flashrom
- Maintainer: ?, migration happens automatically or semi-automatically from the Debian package
- package overview, questions, bugreports

Windows:
- Installation: Currently a build from source is required via MinGW/MSYS, see Windows. Only dummy, ft2232_spi, and buspirate_spi are supported so far.
- Maintainer: Uwe Hermann (uwe_) and others
- There is a (very old and probably obsolete) Windows port of the flashrom utility at DarmawanMappatutu_Salihun.tar.gz.
  In 2009, several patches for Windows, based on a more recent revision of flashrom, were made available:
  - [flashrom] GSoCs Winflashrom versus r126 [1]
  - [flashrom] [PATCH] new windows port [2]

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 * '''DOS''':
 ** Installation: download files from http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/
-** Maintainer: [[User:Idwer|Idwer Vollering]] (idwer)
+** Maintainer: Idwer Vollering (idwer)
 ** A DOS binary can be cross compiled using Linux. Instructions on how to compile can be found in the [http://www.flashrom.org/trac/flashrom/browser/trunk/README#L97 README]. Also general instuctions available on the [[DOS]] page.