Old IRC channel

[Nils Woeste]

Hi, I encountered an Issue with flashing a BIOS and the message says 
"Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom)"

this points to an old server not monitored. The correct one (Libera.chat) 
should also be included in the error message. They could help me there.

Version 1.2-5

Regards Nils

[Felix Singer]

Hi there,

thanks for the hint!

We are just about preparing releases for our current stable versions.

The changes already were made on master and I just backported them to
1.2. [1]

// Felix

[1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/68063

On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 12:24 +0000, Nils Woeste wrote:
> Hi, I encountered an Issue with flashing a BIOS and the message says 
> "Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom)"
>
> this points to an old server not monitored. The correct one
> (Libera.chat) should also be included in the error message. They
> could help me there.
>
> Version 1.2-5

[Felix Singer]

Just merged the patches ;)

On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 23:03 +0000, Felix Singer wrote:
> We are just about preparing releases for our current stable versions.
>
> The changes already were made on master and I just backported them to
> 1.2. [1]
>
> // Felix
>
> [1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/68063

[Angel Pons]

Hi Nils,

On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 9:25 PM Nils Woeste  wrote:
> Hi, I encountered an Issue with flashing a BIOS and the message says
> "Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom)"
>
> this points to an old server not monitored. The correct one (Libera.chat) should also be included in the error message. They could help me there.

Thanks for the notice. I personally took care of fixing this in
https://review.coreboot.org/56031 a while ago. To make sure a similar
problem won't happen again, flashrom executables now point to our
wiki, which we can update as needed without having to wait for package
maintainers. However, this was before the last release.
> Version 1.2-5

We've backported my patches to the release branches (see Felix's
comment), but I'm not sure if any package maintainers will update the
packages. The next flashrom release is long overdue, primarily because
the quality of the code in the master branch degraded too much to make
a new release with. We're trying to bring the quality back again, but
it takes time and effort...
> Regards Nils

Best regards,
Angel