Flashrom/0.9.1
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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
- 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
- Code cleanups
Pending are:
- Blockwise erase
- Various small fixes
- Universal external flasher protocol
- AVR based external flasher support attached via serial line
- 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.