[flashrom] flashrom on NetBSD 8 and apu2?

2020-03-03 Thread Greg Troxel
I have a PC Engines apu2d4 running NetBSD 8 (amd64), and would like to update coreboot/etc. on it. I searched the list (perhaps not well) and didn't find any reports of success, although I realize things are generally expected to work so success might well go unreported. I am using flashrom 1.1 a

[flashrom] Re: flashrom on NetBSD 8 and apu2?

2021-04-03 Thread Greg Troxel
Greg Troxel writes a year ago (in March of 2020): > I have a PC Engines apu2d4 running NetBSD 8 (amd64), and would like to > update coreboot/etc. on it. I searched the list (perhaps not well) and > didn't find any reports of success, although I realize things are > generally

[flashrom] Re: FAILED: apu2e4

2021-07-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Stephen Hladysh writes: > flashrom -w /tmp/apu2_v4.14.0.1.rom -p internal > flashrom v1.2 on FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE (amd64) > flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org I am far from an expert, but: have you previously run flashrom successfully on this device? Other

[flashrom] Re: Flashrom Dev Meeting once a month?

2022-02-03 Thread Greg Troxel
I am just a lurker because I use flashrom to update my apu2 bios, so I am not going to attend anyway (even if it were at a convenient time EST). However, if I were, then I would reject anything that requires a Google account (or even worse, a facebook account), and also reject anything that requi

[flashrom] Re: Flashrom Dev Meeting once a month?

2022-02-03 Thread Greg Troxel
Felix Singer writes: > Hi Greg, > > thanks for reaching out :) > > On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 08:11 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: >> However, if I were, then I would reject anything that requires a >> Google account (or even worse, a facebook account), and also rejec

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-13 Thread Greg Troxel
> I've noticed something related in reviews over the years, though. Some- > times when reviewers give a lot of comments on Gerrit, among them some > critical ones about the overall patch and a lot of nits, the author > tends to fix the nits and ignore the critical comments. Sure, when > somebody i

[flashrom] Re: Release preparations

2022-03-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Richard Hughes writes: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 20:04, Nico Huber wrote: >> There is also one big general issue: we need to maintain two build >> systems now. We can't use GNU make only, because nobody knows what >> the requirements of the Meson users are. > > My vote would be to remove the *Ma

[flashrom] Re: One Build System Working Group

2022-04-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Some comments from a packager and experience with switching to cmake, some of it ok, some of it bad. I'm trimming stuff I don't have any comments on as I think you have this mostly right. Thomas Heijligen writes: > ## Platforms to support > * Systems > * Linux (Distros / ChromeOS) Long-

[flashrom] Re: One Build System Working Group

2022-04-06 Thread Greg Troxel
pkgsrc has cmocka 1.1.5. Telling the flashrom package that it is needed for running tests, or that it's always needed is one line in the control Makefile. Including it or downloading it is much more painful. signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

[flashrom] Re: One Build System Working Group

2022-04-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Thomas Heijligen writes: > The current policy with the Makefile is to stay backwards compatible. That's fine because make is stable, even the GNU flavor. There really shouldn't be anything in a makefile that is an issue for 5 year old make. The dependency requirements are a different matter,

[flashrom] Re: Release preparations

2022-04-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Anastasia Klimchuk writes: > I haven’t done any releases before, so tell me if I am wrong. But what I am > thinking when looking at the list of issues: maybe we can have some time > for “just fixing issues on master” and after that do a release branch? Does > it make sense? > “Some time” won’t t

[flashrom] Re: libflashrom rust binding

2022-07-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Evan Benn writes: > I think the first question is is the flashrom community happy to have > these bindings live inside the flashrom git repo? They could live in > their own separate repos, but keeping them with flashrom will make > keeping up with libflashrom API changes more straightforward. I

[flashrom] Re: flashrom dev meeting notes 27.06.2024

2024-06-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Anastasia Klimchuk writes: > * As the time goes, chip vendors are producing newer models, which > sometimes re-use model IDs of old versions. Old versions are > considered as "end of life", and replaced with newer models with more > features. However flashchips.c accumulates everything and with t

[flashrom] Re: flashrom dev meeting notes 27.06.2024

2024-06-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Angel Pons writes: > Newer chips support SFDP (Serial Flash Discoverable Parameter), a > specification that allows (at least) SPI flash chips to self-document > themselves to software, and that nearly all flash chips from the last > decade or so support. So, I would highly recommend using SFDP to