Fedora 13 Update: flashrom-0.9.3-0.1.svn1205.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-16627
2010-10-27 21:11:53
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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").

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Update Information:

* Pre-release of ver. 0.9.3
* Now builds on PPC and PPC64. Other arches are not tested.
* Now builds with autotools
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct 26 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 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 <lemenkov at gmail.com> 0.9.2-6.svn1180
- Added autotools support
* Tue Sep 21 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 0.9.2-5.svn1180
- Patch no.3 merged upstream
* Fri Sep 17 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 0.9.2-4.svn1158
- Enable building on PowerPC (only external flashers enabled so far).
  See rhbz #283491.
* Sun Sep 12 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 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 <lemenkov at gmail.com> 0.9.2-2
- Added missing Requires - dmidecode (for accurate board matching)
* Thu Jun  3 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 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
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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
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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/.

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