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Thread: Firmware-tools 1.1 released & BIOS Repo updated




Firmware-tools 1.1 released & BIOS Repo updated
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2007-02-13 17:26:41

The biggest changes are renaming a couple of commands, plus the new BIOS repo has over 30 new systems, as well as much more recent BIOS for a select few systems that were affected by a small bug in the extract script.

Changes:
  -- naming conventions for commands in firmware-tools: renamed several commands to end in _firmware as the names were a bit too generic. Supplied backwards compatibility script to ease migration until everybody switches. The back compat script prints a warning and pauses for 5 seconds before continuing with execution. Anticipate removing back-compat script in 1.2.

  -- fixed a bug in the mkbiosrepo.sh script that was causing system names to not be generated for known systems on first run of the script.

  -- Updated BIOS RPMs to call new "update_firmware" script insead of "apply_updates"

  -- updated dosemu in extract_hdr_helper.dat to work on x86_64 systems.

  -- fixed a bug in extract_hdr that was causing some BIOS not to be extracted (>30 new system BIOS present in the repo now.)

  -- fixed a bug where we were extracting wrong version information into package.ini, causing the RPM build to select an older BIOS to build.


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Michael

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