Op 21-6-2011 15:13, Ian Whitfield schreef:
**I ran the Apt instruction from the Downloads site and it came back and told me I had the latest version loaded.
So I ran the /flashrom -V instruction and got the following...
ian@LinuxBox /usr/sbin $ sudo ./flashrom -V [sudo] password for ian: flashrom v0.9.2-r1028 on Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.4, little endian
I think developers in general mean building the source into a binary yourself. Besides Idwer's DOS-binary [ flashrom.exe , http://khepri.coresystems.de/~idwer/flashrom/latest/ ] I'm not aware of any binaries/packages with very recent versions of Flashrom program.
The PartedMagic LiveCD (downloadable as ISO from http://partedmagic.com/doku.php ) seems to use flashrom revision 1323 (while yours is 1028).
General issue is that developers like people to report with very recent versions instead of outdated bundled versions, due to improvements made meanwhile.
Your options are 1 or more of below: * find a new flashrom binary * find a new flashrom binary package (.deb/.rpm? my Linux knowledge is near non-existing) for your distro * download a tar-file or so, followed by compiling * check out the source (CVS, SVN, GIT, no idea) followed by compiling (preferred by developers).
Ofcourse if flashrom developers have snapshots for download or complete binary packages in their own repository it might make life a lot easier.
For now I suggest the PartedMagic liveCD (which isn't very VMware friendly unfortunately, but that's offtopic).