Downloads

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

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.
• subversion (if you checkout the source and build manually)

Manual installation from source:

If you just want to use the latest release, download flashrom 0.9.1 (source) here (sig).

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

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

Binary packages:

• Debian: sudo aptitude install flashrom
• Ubuntu: sudo aptitude install flashrom
• Fedora: sudo yum install flashrom
• Gentoo: emerge flashrom
• Mandriva: urpmi flashrom
• openSUSE: yast -i coreboot-utils
  • For distributions older than openSUSE Factory (11.0) you find "backports" in the openSUSE Build Service.
• T2 SDE
  • Installation from source: Emerge-Pkg flashrom
  • Installation of binaries: mine -i flashrom-0.9.0.tar.bz2
• FreeBSD: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/flashrom && make install clean

The version from trunk (latest revision while writing this is r889) is usable too, but you NEED to install devel/libpci, sysutils/dmidecode and devel/gmake from ports.

After installing, edit flashrom's Makefile and change line 253 (diff style):

- @$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) .test1.c -o .test1 -lpci $(LIBS) >/dev/null 2>&1 && \

into this:

+ @$(CC) -c $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) .test1.c -o .test1 -lpci $(LIBS) >/dev/null 2>&1 && \

Save the file and run gmake.

• Windows: 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] Clean up before Windows support merge [2]
  • [flashrom] [PATCH] new windows port [3]

Releases:

• flashrom 0.9.0 release notes
• flashrom 0.9.1 release notes
• flashrom 0.9.2 release note draft