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recent versions instead of outdated bundled versions, due to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).