Revision as of 22:40, 20 February 2016

IMPORTANT: This is work in progress. Its purpose is to organize code review and track improvements as they are pushed to our repository. Some of the stuff mentioned below may not get included or even be removed later again.

TODO list for this release

programmers
- buspirate speedup
chips
chipsets
boards
platform/arch/os
- powerpc
- macosx universal binaries
ui
infrastructure
- Return code for spi_read_status_register

New major user-visible features

Allow to link flashrom statically (with make CONFIG_STATIC=yes)
Ease debugging of build problems with libraries
- Output way more debug information to build_details.txt
- Provide list of set make configuration variables that make builds fail
- Allow to easily disable groups of programmers depending on a library (make CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBUSB0_PROGRAMMERS=no CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBUSB1_PROGRAMMERS=no CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBPCI_PROGRAMMERS=no)
Ignore 0x00 as a manufacturer IDs in the generic match to avoid ambiguous messages
Various improvements for serprog-based programmers
Support arbitrary UART baud rates on Windows

New programmers

Enable the dediprog module by default, add support for Dediprog SF600 and the new communication protocol of the SF100 with newer firmware.
WCH CH341A
VIA VT8251
Add support to update the firmware of Promise UltraATA controllers

New chips

ESI ES25P40, ES25P80 and ES25P16
Sanyo LE25FU406C/LE25U40CMC
SST SST25WF020A, SST25WF040B, SST25WF080B
Winbond W29C512A/W29EE512
PMC Pm25LQ020, Pm25LQ040, Pm25LQ080, Pm25LQ016, Pm25LQ032C
More GigaDevice GD25LQ chips (GD25LQ40, GD25LQ80, GD25LQ16, GD25LQ64(B), GD25LQ128)

Infrastructural improvements and fixes

Add support for libftdi1 (previous libftdi support still in place for backward compatibility)
Add infrastructure to use libusb1 (programmers will be migrated from libusb0 continuously in the future)
Many cross-platform and cross-architecture improvements:
- Fix compilation on OSX
- Add support for musl libc
- Use nanosleep() instead of usleep() where available (enables building with uclibc)
- Support compilation on Android (bionic libc)
Rigorously check integrity of I/O stream data (e.g. to notice full filesystems when writing flash data to a file)

Download

flashrom 0.9.9 can be downloaded in various ways:

Anonymous checkout from the subversion repository at svn://flashrom.org/flashrom/tags/flashrom-0.9.9

A tarball is available for download at

http://download.flashrom.org/releases/flashrom-0.9.9.tar.bz2 (GPG signature).

Supported hardware

Please see the archived status page for the hardware supported by this release.

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 * Allow to link flashrom statically (with <tt>make CONFIG_STATIC=yes</tt>)
 * Ease debugging of build problems with libraries
-** Output way more debug information to "build_details.txt"
+** Output way more debug information to <tt>build_details.txt</tt>
 ** Provide list of set make configuration variables that make builds fail
-** Allow to easily disable groups of programmers depending on a library (make CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBUSB0_PROGRAMMERS=no CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBUSB1_PROGRAMMERS=no CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBPCI_PROGRAMMERS=no)
+** Allow to easily disable groups of programmers depending on a library (<tt>make CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBUSB0_PROGRAMMERS=no CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBUSB1_PROGRAMMERS=no CONFIG_ENABLE_LIBPCI_PROGRAMMERS=no</tt>)
 * Ignore 0x00 as a manufacturer IDs in the generic match to avoid ambiguous messages
 * Various improvements for serprog-based programmers
@@ Line 50: / Line 50: @@
 ** Fix compilation on OSX
 ** Add support for musl libc
-** Use nanosleep() instead of usleep() where available (enables building with uclibc)
+** Use <tt>nanosleep()</tt> instead of <tt>usleep()</tt> where available (enables building with uclibc)
 ** Support compilation on Android (bionic libc)
 * Rigorously check integrity of I/O stream data (e.g. to notice full filesystems when writing flash data to a file)

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