CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/flashrom

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   jakllsch
Date:           Fri Jul 29 13:35:43 UTC 2011

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/sysutils/flashrom: Makefile distinfo

Log Message:
Update flashrom to 0.9.4.

==New major user-visible features==
* Support for new programmers:
** OpenMoko Neo1973/Neo FreeRunner debug board version 2 or 3, FTDI 
FT2232-based (r1231)
** Olimex ARM-USB-TINY, ARM-USB-TINY-H, ARM-USB-OCD, and ARM-USB-OCD-H, FTDI 
FT2232-based (r1331)
** Open Graphics Project development card, OGD1 (r1241)
** Angelbird Wings PCIe SSD/88SX7042 (r1258)
** ITE IT85xx embedded controllers (r1262)
** Intel NIC with parallel flash (r1297)
* Dozens of added flash chips, chipsets, mainboards.
* Improved user interface.
* Reliability fixes for buggy hardware, buggy third party software and corner 
case spec conformance.
* Improved Dediprog SF100 support.
* Update port of flashrom package to Mac OS X using DirectHW.
* Improved support for protection status printing and chip unlocking.
* Fix and improve libpayload platform support.
* Add support for more than one Super I/O or EC per machine.
* Always read the flash chip before writing, for improved error checking and 
faster programming.
* Enable write support on NVIDIA MCP6x/MCP7x.
* Added SPI flash emulation capability to the dummy programmer.

==Infrastructural improvements and fixes==
* Shutdown function registration
* Improved error messages
* Correctness fixes
* Various workarounds for broken hardware
* Code cleanups


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/sysutils/flashrom/Makefile \
    pkgsrc/sysutils/flashrom/distinfo

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