[Bug 250924] New: Review Request: flashrom - Simple program for reading/writing BIOS chips content

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           Summary: Review Request: flashrom - Simple program for
                    reading/writing BIOS chips content
           Product: Fedora
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: lemenkov at gmail.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-package-review at redhat.com,notting at redhat.com


Spec URL: http://peter.fedorapeople.org/flashrom.spec
SRPM URL: http://peter.fedorapeople.org/flashrom-0.0-1.2742svn.fc7.src.rpm
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").



All of you, no doubt, heard something about LinuxBIOS project which has slow but constant progress in providing completely open startup-firmware (also known as BIOS) for a not so little number of mainboards (from desktop ones to more specific). 

Since the project continues to rise there are some utilities appears which may be useful even for users of proprietary BIOSes. One of such utilities is flashrom - it helps (re)flashing firmware w/o needs to create LiveCDs powered with my grandma's 8-bit DOS and rebooting to it.

See some user cases at the link below:

http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/flashing-a-bios-the-linux-way-tm-using-flashrom

I've got some thing to discuss - versioning of this package. Upstream still haven't any version (just svn revision) so I decided to name it as flashrom-0.0-1.2742svn.fc7 but maybe it would be better to name it like flashrom-0-1.2742svn.fc7 or something similar?

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