flashrom/0.9.8

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
  • serprog map_flash_region
  • enable dediprog by default
• chips
• chipsets
• boards
• platform/arch/os
  • powerpc
  • macosx universal binaries
• ui
• infrastructure
  • Return code for spi_read_status_register

New major user-visible features

• Support for switching betweens chips on boards with GIGABYTE's DualBIOS
• Support for AMD Yangtze's SPI controller (found in Kabini and Tamesh)

New chips

• AT45DB family
• AT45CS1282
• Fujitsu MBM29LV160BE/TE
• ST M50LPW080

Infrastructural improvements and fixes

• Automatic unmapping and rounding of memory maps
• Using an internal DMI decoder instead of relying on dmidecode

Download

flashrom 0.9.8 can be downloaded in various ways:

Anonymous checkout from the subversion repository at svn://flashrom.org/flashrom/tags/flashrom-0.9.8

A tarball is available for download at

http://download.flashrom.org/releases/flashrom-0.9.8.tar.bz2 (GPG signature).

Supported hardware

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