Fedora 12 Update: flashrom-0.9.3-0.1.svn1205.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-16672
2010-10-27 21:14:06
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Name        : flashrom
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.9.3
Release     : 0.1.svn1205.fc12
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
* Wed Apr 28 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 0.9.1-4.svn995
- Updated to latest svn ver. 995
- Lots of new chips and m/b
* Fri Mar 12 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 0.9.1-3.svn931
- Updated to latest svn ver. 931
- ASUS A7V8X-X board
- MS-7202 board
- Asus M2NBP-VM CSM board
- HP Vectra VL420SFF board
- Eon EN29F010 chip
- Abit IP35 Pro board
- HP Vectra VL400 board
- Intel E28F004S5 flash chip
- Lots of bugfixes
* Mon Feb  8 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> 0.9.1-2.svn893
- Updated to latest svn ver. 893
- ST M29W512B chip
- Tekram P6Pro-A5 board
- Fixed GIGABYTE GA-7ZM board
- SST39SF512 chip
- Fixed SyncMOS S29C51004T chip
- Intel NM10 chipset
- Fixed A25L40PU and A2540PT chip
- Spansion S25FL008A chip
- MSI 651M-L board
- Several Eon EN25Bxx{T,B} chips
- Fixed Sharp LHF00L04 chip
- VIA VT8233A chipset
- MSI K8N Neo4-F board
- Intel Poulsbo chipset
- ECS K7S6A board
- ASRock M3A790GXH/128M board
- Asus M2V-MX board
- Shuttle AK31 board
- Fixed MSI KT4V board
- Asus P4B266LM board
- Asrock P4i65GV board
- Intel 3400 series / 5 series chipset
- W25x32 and W25x64 chips
- Sanyo LF25FW203A chip (sometimes labeled as 25FW203T)
- Shuttle FN25 (SN25P) board
- EPoX EP-8RDA3+ board
- ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe board
- nVidia nForce 4 chipset
- VIA VT82C596 chipset
- Wyse Winterm S50 board
- Dell S1850 board
- Dr. Kaiser PC-Waechter PCI devices
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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