Hi Michael, The 'dmidecode' dependency was removed with flashrom 0.9.8 (2015-03-01).
Time flies :-) Lonnie > On Mar 28, 2020, at 11:47 AM, Michael Keuter <li...@mksolutions.info> wrote: > > Hi Lonnie, > > Its long ago, but it can be that dmidecode is also needed. > Build it as well, just in case. > > Sent from a mobile device. > > Michael Keuter > >> Am 28.03.2020 um 14:13 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>: >> >> >> >>> On Mar 28, 2020, at 7:05 AM, Dr. Peter Voigt <pvo...@uos.de> wrote: >>> >>> My AstLinux machine is a PC Engines APU1 and I would like to upgrade >>> the strongly outdated Coreboot BIOS. >>> >>> Usualy, under Linux and FreeBSD there is a flash program called >>> "flashrom" which can be used to flash the BIOS from the running >>> Operating system (Linux or FreeBSD). E.g. for Debian and FreeBSD package >>> information is available here: >>> https://packages.debian.org/buster/flashrom >>> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/flashrom/ >>> >>> Almost three years ago I successfully did the BIOS upgrade from a >>> running pfSense. >>> >>> Does AstLinux as well provide flashrom to do this job? >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> flashrom is a package for custom builds, but we don't include it in the >> standard builds. >> >> If you want, I could build and create a flashrom-1.1.tar.gz for you to use. >> If yes, are you using the 64-bit genx86_64-serial image ? Let me know. >> >> But in general, if your BIOS is working it is usually best to leave as is. >> >> Lonnie >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> pay...@krisk.org. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
