Revision as of 08:29, 14 July 2009

DRAFT

New features include:

External flasher infrastructure
3Com NICs as external flasher
Silicon Image SATA controllers as external flasher
ITE IT87* SuperI/O SPI translation as external flasher
FT2232H/FT4232H based SPI external flasher support
Dummy flasher driver to trace execution
Partial read support infrastructure
Automatic erase verification
Dozens of added flash chips
Some new chipsets are supported
Some new boards are supported
Improved SPI abstraction
Accurate timing information for probing
Tarball export target
User interface cleanup
Bus type dependent probing
Block protection printing for more chips
Probing accuracy improvements for old SPI chips on ICH
MMIO abstraction layer
Chip access abstraction layer
No root privileges needed for some external flashers
More intelligent error handling for ICH/VIA SPI
Fix corner case SB600 SPI hangs on non-SPI boards
Downgrade to byte program for certain chip families because they don't support page program
Detection of no-ID responses from chips
Elan SC520 runtime detection
100x speedup for writes to some SPI chips
Improved error messages
Correctness fixes
Code cleanups

Pending are:

If you know of features or pending patches which are not in the list, please mail Carl-Daniel.

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