Re: [Astlinux-users] Upgrading Coreboot firmware of PC Engines APU with flashrom

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

> On Mar 28, 2020, at 7:05 AM, Dr. Peter Voigt <pv...@uo...> wrote:
> 
> My AstLinux machine is a PC Engines APU1 and I would like to upgrade
> the strongly outdated Coreboot BIOS.
> 
> Usualy, under Linux and FreeBSD there is a flash program called
> "flashrom" which can be used to flash the BIOS from the running
> Operating system (Linux or FreeBSD). E.g. for Debian and FreeBSD package
> information is available here:
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/flashrom
> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/flashrom/
> 
> Almost three years ago I successfully did the BIOS upgrade from a
> running pfSense.
> 
> Does AstLinux as well provide flashrom to do this job?

Hi Peter,

flashrom is a package for custom builds, but we don't include it in the standard builds.

If you want, I could build and create a flashrom-1.1.tar.gz for you to use. If yes, are you using the 64-bit genx86_64-serial image ?  Let me know.

But in general, if your BIOS is working it is usually best to leave as is.

Lonnie