Flashrom/0.9.1

DRAFT

New features include:

• External flasher infrastructure
• 3Com NICs as external flasher
• Silicon Image SATA controllers as external flasher
• ITE IT87* SuperI/O SPI translation as external flasher
• FT2232H/FT4232H based SPI external flasher support
• Universal external flasher protocol
• AVR based external flasher support attached via serial line
• Dummy flasher driver to trace execution
• Partial read support infrastructure
• Automatic erase verification
• Dozens of added flash chips
• Some new chipsets are supported
• Some new boards are supported
• Improved SPI abstraction
• Accurate timing information for probing
• Tarball export target
• User interface cleanup
• Bus type dependent probing
• Block protection printing for more chips
• Probing accuracy improvements for old SPI chips on ICH
• MMIO abstraction layer
• Chip access abstraction layer
• No root privileges needed for some external flashers
• More intelligent error handling for ICH/VIA SPI
• Fix corner case SB600 SPI hangs on non-SPI boards
• Downgrade to byte program for certain chip families because they don't support page program
• Detection of no-ID responses from chips
• Elan SC520 runtime detection
• 100x speedup for writes to some SPI chips
• Improved error messages
• Correctness fixes
• Various workarounds for broken hardware
• Code cleanups

Pending are:

• Blockwise erase
• Various small fixes
• Partial read support
• Partial erase support
• Partial write support
• Nvidia graphics card (which generations?) as external flasher

If you know of features or pending patches which are not in the list, please mail Carl-Daniel.