[announce] flashrom 1.0-rc2

[Nico Huber]

Hey folks,

we've just tagged a release candidate for flashrom-1.0. It seems very
stable; though, testing of this specific revision was rather limited
[1]. So please test! especially if you use a rare setup (e.g. non-Linux
/ non-x86).

If you don't use Git, you can find a tarball here:
https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/flashrom.git/snapshot/flashrom-1.0-rc2.tar....

Nico

[1] Beside being used by developers, it's currently build tested on the
     following OS's (mostly thanks to Docker multiarch images):

NetBSD 7.1 amd64
NetBSD 7.1 i386
alpine:amd64-v3.6
alpine:amd64-v3.7
alpine:i386-v3.6
alpine:i386-v3.7
centos:7.2-amd64-clean
centos:7.3-aarch64-clean
centos:7.3-amd64-clean
debian-debootstrap:amd64-sid
debian-debootstrap:amd64-stretch
debian-debootstrap:armhf-stretch
debian-debootstrap:i386-sid
debian-debootstrap:i386-stretch
debian-debootstrap:mips-stretch
debian-debootstrap:mipsel-stretch
debian-debootstrap:powerpc-sid
debian-debootstrap:ppc64el-stretch
fedora:24-x86_64
fedora:25-aarch64
fedora:25-ppc64le
fedora:25-x86_64
ubuntu-debootstrap:amd64-xenial
ubuntu-debootstrap:amd64-zesty
ubuntu-debootstrap:arm64-xenial
ubuntu-debootstrap:i386-xenial
ubuntu-debootstrap:i386-zesty

[Rudolf Marek]

Hi

Dne 28.12.2017 v 16:23 Nico Huber napsal(a):
> Hey folks,
> [1]. So please test! especially if you use a rare setup (e.g. non-Linux
> / non-x86).

I tried to run cross-compile it for DOS. The README is bit outdated. The idea was to ask Rayer on CC to
test it with some real HW. However, even with QEMU, it complains that the low 1MB mappings failed (when it searches for coreboot table
and for a DMI). I wanted to look who worked on that, and it was me in 2010 - maybe something changed in DJGPP

I tried to use latest DJGPP with GCC 7.2.0. I don't know what is wrong with that yet.

Anyone used the DOS port recently?

Anyway, I will try to look into that tomorrow.

Thanks
Rudolf

Draft patch in case someone wants to compile it too:

--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -101,11 +101,14 @@ To cross-compile on Linux for DOS:
  The cross toolchain packages for your distribution may have slightly different
  names (look for packages named *djgpp*).

+ You could use a script to build it from scratch: https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp
+
  You will need the following library source trees containing their compiled
  static libraries either in the parent directory of the flashrom source or
  specify the base folder on compile time with the LIBS_BASE parameter.
  The default as described above is equal to calling
-   'make djgpp-dos LIBS_BASE=..'
+
+   'make CC=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc STRIP=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-strip LIBS_BASE=../libpci/'

[Rudolf Marek]

Hi all

Something wrong with "valloc" in the latest DJGPP (djcrx205.zip)

We need 1MB of VALLOCed space in flashrom, to map the legacy DOS area. As you can see, something is wrong with that.

Is there someone with DJGPP who could try?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <malloc.h>

//void *valloc(size_t size);
int main(void)
{
printf("VALLOC %lx\n", valloc(1024*1024)); /* Fails with 0 */
printf("MALLOC %lx\n", malloc(1024));
printf("MALLOC %lx\n", malloc(1024*1024));
printf("VALLOC %lx\n", valloc(1024)); /* Fails with 0 */
printf("MEMALIGN %lx\n", memalign(4096, 1024)); /* Fails with 0 */
printf("MEMALIGN %lx\n", memalign(64, 1024)); /* Fails with 0 */
printf("MEMALIGN %lx\n", memalign(32, 64));
}

Thanks
Rudolf

[Michael Zhilin]

Hi,

Compilation on FreeBSD 12-current is fine, but could you please merge
https://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/4498/ before release?

Thank you!

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Nico Huber  wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> we've just tagged a release candidate for flashrom-1.0. It seems very
> stable; though, testing of this specific revision was rather limited
> [1]. So please test! especially if you use a rare setup (e.g. non-Linux
> / non-x86).
>
> If you don't use Git, you can find a tarball here:
> https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/flashrom.git/snapshot/flash
> rom-1.0-rc2.tar.bz2
>
> Nico
>
> [1] Beside being used by developers, it's currently build tested on the
>     following OS's (mostly thanks to Docker multiarch images):
>
> NetBSD 7.1 amd64
> NetBSD 7.1 i386
> alpine:amd64-v3.6
> alpine:amd64-v3.7
> alpine:i386-v3.6
> alpine:i386-v3.7
> centos:7.2-amd64-clean
> centos:7.3-aarch64-clean
> centos:7.3-amd64-clean
> debian-debootstrap:amd64-sid
> debian-debootstrap:amd64-stretch
> debian-debootstrap:armhf-stretch
> debian-debootstrap:i386-sid
> debian-debootstrap:i386-stretch
> debian-debootstrap:mips-stretch
> debian-debootstrap:mipsel-stretch
> debian-debootstrap:powerpc-sid
> debian-debootstrap:ppc64el-stretch
> fedora:24-x86_64
> fedora:25-aarch64
> fedora:25-ppc64le
> fedora:25-x86_64
> ubuntu-debootstrap:amd64-xenial
> ubuntu-debootstrap:amd64-zesty
> ubuntu-debootstrap:arm64-xenial
> ubuntu-debootstrap:i386-xenial
> ubuntu-debootstrap:i386-zesty
>
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