-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-16627 2010-10-27 21:11:53 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : flashrom Product : Fedora 13 Version : 0.9.3 Release : 0.1.svn1205.fc13 URL : http://flashrom.org Summary : Simple program for reading/writing BIOS chips content Description : Utility which can be used to detect BIOS chips (DIP, PLCC), read their contents and write new contents on the chips ("flash the chip"). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: * Pre-release of ver. 0.9.3 * Now builds on PPC and PPC64. Other arches are not tested. * Now builds with autotools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Oct 26 2010 Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> 0.9.3-0.1.svn1205 - Ver. 0.9.3 (pre-release, exported from SCM) * Wed Sep 29 2010 jkeating - 0.9.2-7.svn1180 - Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757 * Fri Sep 24 2010 Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> 0.9.2-6.svn1180 - Added autotools support * Tue Sep 21 2010 Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> 0.9.2-5.svn1180 - Patch no.3 merged upstream * Fri Sep 17 2010 Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> 0.9.2-4.svn1158 - Enable building on PowerPC (only external flashers enabled so far). See rhbz #283491. * Sun Sep 12 2010 Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> 0.9.2-3.svn1158 - Clean up spec-file - Updated to latest svn ver. 1158 - Doubles the number of known boards! * Sun Jun 13 2010 Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> 0.9.2-2 - Added missing Requires - dmidecode (for accurate board matching) * Thu Jun 3 2010 Peter Lemenkov <[email protected]> 0.9.2-1 - Support for new external flashers - Dozens of added flash chips, chipsets, mainboards - Selective blockwise erase - Improved user interface - Reliability fixes - Mainboard matching via DMI strings - Laptop detection which triggers safety measures -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #283491 - flashrom can't be built at powerpc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=283491 [ 2 ] Bug #617621 - Flashrom / dmidecode bad interaction could brick laptops https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617621 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update flashrom' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
