Public bug reported: affects ubuntu/flashrom subscribe ubuntu-release
hi! i am one of the upstream maintainers and would like to request to sync 0.9.5 of our package from debian. I have attached the Changelog diff that contains all upstream commits since 0.9.4 (which was packaged for Debian and synced to Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 before), but it is rather large. It is probably better to look at our release notes here: http://flashrom.org/Flashrom/0.9.5 Also, the pbuilder-dist precise build log is appended. I have also verified basic operation with our built-in dummy programmer in a precise QEMU VM (i386). I would like to see 0.9.5 in the next LTS release mainly because of two reasons: 1. Newer Intel-based mainboards are often locked down so flashrom can not access the flash chip to update the BIOS (the common use case of flashrom, especially with Ubuntu). The new release adds better support for Intel-based mainboards and prints more precise and easier to understand messages to the user in the case a board is locked down. 2. Support for SFDP was added in 0.9.5 which allows flashrom to support new flash chips without having all properties hard-coded beforehand. So if a user buys a new mainboard with a yet unreleased flash chip holding the BIOS he might be able to update the firmware without getting/building an updated binary. But there are also lots of other useful changes since 0.9.4 which was released last summer. OTOH there are not many reasons to not sync flashrom. There are not many dependencies and afaik no dependents at all. There are no known regressions yet. As mentioned in the release notes above the current SFDP implementation is a bit buggy regarding erase operations. This will be fixed shortly in an exceptional service release tagged 0.9.5.1 (for which i would file another FFE, if this one gets ACKed. It that the correct procedure?). The new Debian package contains a patch that disables (the newly added) support for the Linux kernel's SPI driver, because of dependency problems with non-Linux kernels in Debian. This could be probably dropped and replaced with a dependency on the linux kernel headers for Ubuntu already (will be done so in Debian ASAP), but is not a big issue for most Ubuntu users i guess. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner ** Affects: flashrom (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Patch added: "0.9.4-0.9.5-Changelog.diff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938156/+attachment/2767732/+files/0.9.4-0.9.5-Changelog.diff ** Attachment added: "last_operation.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938156/+attachment/2767733/+files/last_operation.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938156 Title: FFE: Sync flashrom 0.9.5+r1503-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashrom/+bug/938156/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
