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= The early years — flash updates with linux = | |||
Formerly OpenBIOS provided its own flashing facility implemented as a device driver called '''/dev/bios'''. One big disadvantage of '''/dev/bios''' was that it needed to be recompiled for every minor kernel update. | |||
Ollie Lho, back when working at SIS, started a new effort which he called '''flash_and_burn'''. This utility became part of the [http://www.coreboot.org coreboot project] and evolved to work with non-SIS chipsets. | |||
[https://www.coreboot.org/User:Stepan Stefan Reinauer] added a lot of new features to Ollie's utility and renamed it to '''flashrom'''. This utility still lacked some features the old '''/dev/bios''' driver was having, but it could easily be used from userspace without recompiling the kernel. | |||
= Becoming a widely used user-space flash utility = | |||
* carldani | |||
* own homepage | |||
* releases | |||
* chromiumos fork | |||
= Continuous efforts = | |||
* stefanct | |||
* most important changes...? | |||
* logo | |||
* git | |||
Revision as of 17:11, 7 May 2016
The early years — flash updates with linux
Formerly OpenBIOS provided its own flashing facility implemented as a device driver called /dev/bios. One big disadvantage of /dev/bios was that it needed to be recompiled for every minor kernel update.
Ollie Lho, back when working at SIS, started a new effort which he called flash_and_burn. This utility became part of the coreboot project and evolved to work with non-SIS chipsets.
Stefan Reinauer added a lot of new features to Ollie's utility and renamed it to flashrom. This utility still lacked some features the old /dev/bios driver was having, but it could easily be used from userspace without recompiling the kernel.
Becoming a widely used user-space flash utility
- carldani
- own homepage
- releases
- chromiumos fork
Continuous efforts
- stefanct
- most important changes...?
- logo
- git