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Supported controllers are Promise PDC20262 (FastTrak66/Ultra66),
PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100), PDC20267 (FastTrak100/Ultra100).
At least the Ultra100 only has address lines A0-A14 wired up, limiting
addressable chip size to 32 kB. The flash chips mounted on those
controllers usually is 128 kB, i.e. parts of the flash chip are
inaccessible. As a workaround, the driver implicitly truncates the
size of all flash chips to 32 kB. Works well for the factory installed
flash.
Do NOT use as a generic programmer for chips >32 kB.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1916.
Signed-off-by: Joseph C. Lehner <joseph.c.lehner@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Urja Rannikko <urjaman@gmail.com>

This won't work for the majority of relevant commands because they use the
$(shell) function and GNU make does not relay variables exported within the
makefile to their evironment.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1914.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Also, add a target to the makefile to build a flashrom.8.html with groff.
To fix some formatting issues this adds some indention commands as well.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1913.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

This is loosly based on the following changes of chromiumos:

 - flashrom: Add default pkg-config definition.
   Change-Id: I28744af0fd2d2d0bcc4569a5fbef370321691267
 - Fix FT2232 feature on static builds.
   Change-Id: I70d4a7bda573b64cb18429a21792455b018c4cba

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1912.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Previously we have hid almost all error messages from called tools like
pkg-config or the compiler in the "configure" step. Only exceptions were
the library checks because Carl-Daniel felt it improved usability in
case of missing headers etc.

However, this makes the output of the makefile less readable and in
the case of pkg-config fallbacks the error messages are actually
expected. Instead of throwing a part of the detailed stderr outputs
of the tools into the face of the users and completely hiding
others, write all of them into a separate log file instead.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1911.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

The parenthesis pushed the exports into a subshell thus made them useless.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1910.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Many distros no longer provide libftdi 0.2, and as a result,
programmers that depend on libftdi must be disabled to compile flashrom.
Luckily the libftdi API did not change significantly, so for our
purposes, we can simply use the newer headers and link to the newer
library if it is available.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1904.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1887.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Tested mainboards:
OK:
 - Elitegroup GF7050VT-M
   Reported by Alex
 - Fujitsu D2724-A1x (used in ESPRIMO E5625)
   Reported by Rainer Spillmann
 - Teclast X98 Air 3G
   Reported by Antonio Ospite

Flash chips:
 - Fix MX25L6405(D) definition by splitting it.
   Reported by Reggie McMurtrey
 - Add Macronix MX25L..08E family and rearrange MX25L6436E.
 - Pm49FL004 to PREW (+EW)
   Reported by Georg Sauthoff

Miscellaneous:
 - Add board enable for abit KN9 Ultra.
 - Mark ARM-USB-OCD as working OK.
 - Use "mobile devices" instead of "laptops" in output.
 - Tiny other stuff.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1886.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1883.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Was implemented by SPARC newbies, does (cross-)compile but is not run-tested.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1882.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

This patch was inspired by the code in AVRDude (open source Atmel AVR
programmer) to support the PICkit2 written by Doug Brown [1]. The
Dediprog code in flashrom was used as the template for this code with
some reference to the ft2232 code as well.

[1] - https://github.com/steve-m/avrdude/blob/master/pickit2.c



Corresponding to flashrom svn r1881.
Signed-off-by: Justin Chevrier <jchevrier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

The way more elegant check for the header fails unfortunately on CentOS 4.9
because PCI_LIB_VERSION is not defined at all although the domain parameter
is present. This patch jumps through the hoops via an additional check in the
Makefile to determine if the function accepts 5 parameters (new version) or
not (old version).

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1880.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Tested mainboards:
OK:
 - AOpen UK79G-1394 (used in EZ18 barebones)
   Reported by Lawrence Gough
 - ASUS M4N78 SE
   Reported by Dima Veselov
 - ASUS P5LD2-VM
   Mark board enable as tested (reported by Dima Veselov)
 - GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P (rev. 2.0)
   Reported by trucmar on IRC
 - GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 4.0)
   Reported by ROKO__ on IRC
 - GIGABYTE GA-H77-DS3H (rev. 1.1)
   Reported by Evgeniy Edigarev
 - GIGABYTE GA-P55-USB3 (rev. 2.0)
   Reported by Måns Thörnqvist
 - MSI MS-7817 (H81M-E33)
   Reported by Igor Kolker

Chipsets:
 - Marked Intel Bay Trail (0x0f1c) as tested OK
   Reported by Antonio Ospite
 - Refine Intel IDs
    * Add IDs for Braswell
    * Add IDs for 9 Series PCHs (e.g. H97, Z97)
    * Rename Wellsburg devices slightly

Flash chips:
 - Atmel AT25DF041A to PREW (+PREW)
   Reported by Tai-hwa Liang
 - Atmel AT26DF161 to PREW (+EW)
   Reported by Steve Shenton
 - Atmel AT45DB011D to PREW (+PREW)
   Reported by The Raven
 - Atmel AT45DB642D to PREW (+PREW)
   Reported by Mahesh Mokal
 - Eon EN25F32 to PREW (+PREW)
   Reported by Arman Khodabande
 - Eon EN25F40 to PREW (+REW)
   Reported by Jerrad Pierce
 - Eon EN25QH16 to PREW (+EW)
   Reported by Ben Johnson
 - GigaDevice GD25Q20(B) to PREW (+PREW)
   Reported by Gilles Aurejac
 - Macronix MX25U6435E/F to PR (+PR)
   Reported by Matt Taggart
 - PMC Pm25LV512(A) to PREW (+PREW)
   Reported by The Raven
 - SST SST39VF020 to PREW (+PREW)
   Reported by Urja Rannikko
 - Winbond W25Q40.V to PREW (+EW)
   Reported by Torben Nielsen
 - Add E variants of MX25Lx006 (MX25L2006E, MX25L4006E, MX25L8006E).
 - Add MX25L6465E variant.
 - There was never a MX25L12805 AFAICT.
 - Split MX25L12805 from models with the same ID but an additional 32 kB
   eraser: MX25L12835F/MX25L12845E/MX25L12865E.
 - Add a bunch of ST parallel NOR flash chip IDs.

Miscellaneous:
 - Whitelist ThinkPad X200.
 - Constify master parameter of register_master().
 - Remove FEATURE_BYTEWRITES because it was never used at all.
 - Refine hwseq messages and make them less prominent.
 - Fix the yet unused PRIxCHIPADDR format string thingy.
 - Fix copy&paste error in spi_prettyprint_status_register_bp().
   Spotted by Pablo Cases.
 - Add an additional SMBus controller revision to identify another Yangtze
   model. Thanks to Dan Christensen for reporting this issue.
 - dediprog: add missing include for stdlib.h.
   This fixes (at least) building on FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD with gcc.
 - Remove references to struct pci_filter from programmer.h.
   It is only needed in internal.c where it has a complete type. Having
   it in programmer.h provokes a warning by some old versions of gcc.
 - Tiny other stuff.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1879.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

libusb-win32 is using a different header file name (lusb0_usb.h) for
a while. Use that on Windows builds to make clear that this is
currently the correct header to include.

Hopefully this will change soonish by migrating away from libusb-0.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1877.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

In cross-compiler setups pkg-config often needs some help to
determine the correct libraries. This can be done for example by
setting PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to point to the directory where the
cross-compile .pc files are located. If PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR was not
set already outside of the Makefile we set it according to LIBS_BASE
and add the respective path to the linker's rpath. This makes it
possible to easily cross-compile by only setting CC and LIBS_BASE on
the command line.

This patch also removes the explicit default for LIBS_BASE again
because it does not play well with this change and was a bad idea to
begin with.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1876.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Add a workaround for the GNU make that shipped with CentOS 4.9, which
apparently does not like semicolons in shell code (and which also
ignores info functions altogether by the way).

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1875.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

This patch adds a CONFIG_EVERYTHING flag to the Makefile
that sets all CONFIG_* flags to "yes" if they were "no".

This provides a comfortable way to ensure maximum code exposure
to tools like coverity[0] or clang's scan-build.

[0] https://scan.coverity.com/projects/1020



Corresponding to flashrom svn r1869.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

 - /usr/include/cpu/param.h defines PAGE_MASK already, hence use another
   name for the respective macro in nicintel_eeprom.c.
 - Since DragonflyBSD 3.6 DPorts is used as the default package manager.
   Therefore we should use /usr/local/ instead of /usr/pkg/ on default
   to fetch libraries.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1866.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

AR defaults to "ar" anyway in GNU make and instead of gcc it is probably a
better idea to use just cc. The latter allows to build on freebsd 10 without
overriding CC or doing symlink tricks (because it uses clang as cc, provides
multiple gcc packages but only versioned binaries without any actual "gcc"
command name in the path).

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1865.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

We do CPU architecture checks once for the makefile in arch.h and
once for HW access abstraction in hwaccess.c. This patch unifies
related files so that they can share the checks to improve
maintainability and reduce the chance of inconsistencies.
Furthermore, it refines some of the definitions, which
 - adds "support" for AARCH64 and PPC64,
 - adds big-endian handling on arm as well as LE handling on PPC64,
 - fixes compilation of internal.c on AARCH64 and PPC64.

Additionally, this patch continues to unify all OS checks in
flashrom by adding a new helper macro IS_WINDOWS.

The old header file for architecture checking is renamed to platform.h
to reflect its broader scope and all new macros are add in there.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1864.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Gets rid of a few DOS-specific Makefile hacks.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1863.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Up to now, when compiling flashrom outside a VCS it would print two
warnings that are not very clear to the user. This patch adds a new
auxilary function to getrevision.sh and uses it in the makefile to print a
single and more meaningful message to the user while hiding the
warnings from getrevision.sh.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1862.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Basically, among other chips, MSTAR manufactures SoCs that equip TV sets
and computer screens, and it seems that all of their products use the
same in-system programming protocol. Basically, they use the DDC channel
of VGA or DVI connectors, which is actually an I2C bus, to encapsulate
SPI frames (the flash chip is connected to the SoC through an SPI bus).

I wrote this patch since the screen I bought had a software bug, and the
manufacturer only released a new firmware binary, but no tool or
instructions on flashing it.

More details can be found here:
http://boeglin.org/blog/index.php?entry=Flashing-a-BenQ-Z-series-for-free(dom)



I only read code from Linux kernel archives published by Acer to figure
out the protocol (for a touchscreen controller and an NFC chip, both by
MSTAR, that share the same ISP protocol), so I don't think there are
any legal problems with it.

Compilation is currently disabled by default in the Makefile.
If in doubt, additional Makefile bugs were added by Stefan.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1860.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Boeglin <alex@boeglin.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Begin to move functions that clearly belong to the (command line)
user interface out of flashrom's core files like flashrom.c.

 - Refine messages within check_chip_supported(), rename it to
   print_chip_support_status() and move it to newly created cli_common.c.
 - Move flashbuses_to_text() to cli_common.c as well.
 - Move global verbosity variables to cli_output.c.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1841.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Some Parallel bus chips have a 16-bit mode and an 8-bit mode. They use
normal JEDEC addresses for 16-bit mode and shifted addresses (by 1 bit)
for 8-bit mode. Some programmers can access them in 16-bit mode, but on
all flashrom-supported programmers so far, we access them in 8-bit mode.
This means we have to shift the addresses but apart from the addresses
we can share the code.

This patch makes this possible by checking the chip's FEATURE_ADDR_SHIFTED
flag in common JEDEC functions and applying the right addresses respectively.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1840.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

This includes PMC Pm49*, SST 49LF00*, ST M50* and Winbond W39* families.
The erase and write test status bits of all affected chips have been reset.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1833.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

This patch lets you read and write the EEPROM on 82580-based gigabit NIC
cards. So far it has been tested on copper NICs only, but other variants
employing this controller should work too.
It is a nice substitution for the official eeupdate tool.

Speed is quite decent: less than 4 seconds for erases or writes of 32 kB.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1832.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Tested-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Move some suitable functions there, add it to the Makefile, but leave the
declarations in flash.h for now.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1819.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

This code exists thanks to food for thought from Urja Rannikko.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1814.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

This PCI PATA controller can use 3V parallel flash up to 128 kB.

My card was identified as:
  PCI 1283:8212, subsystem 1283:0001.

and labelled as:
  Innovision Multimedia LTD.
  EIO ATA133 RAID
  (DM-8401 Ver A)

This particular card did not require setting of any GPIO signals to
enable flash writing. My card has Pm39LV512 in PLCC32 package without
socket.

Rebased by Stefan (automatic cleanup, some PCI changes, changed
enable bit handling). Committed with test state NT because the
rebased version was not tested on real hardware (yet).

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1812.
Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1811.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Due to the mysterious address handling of this chip the user can specify
a base address with the offset parameter, e.g.:
flashrom -p atavia:offset=0xFFF00000

Thanks to Idwer Vollering for his iterative testing of this code, as well as to
Martijn Bastiaan who did the last tests before merging.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1809.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Make it easier to compile flashrom under NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD:
 - Use /usr/pkg/ as prefix for includes and linking
 - Use pciutils as include path for the right(tm) libpci

Also, fix date handling in getrevision.sh to work with the various formats for
invoking 'date'. This also uses svn's info --xml output instead of the regular one.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1742.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Tested-by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

While flashrom is not as picky on compilers as coreboot, there is still a
high probablilty of breakage when one combines libpayload and distribution
compilers. Print a warning if we detect that to give the daring user a hint
how to resolve the explosions potentially following below it.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1740.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

There are two locking strategies used by this umbrella family, one uniform
and one that matches the sector layout of the chip. Refactor the functions
involved and rename the overly complicated file to just stm50.c and the
functions accordingly.

This fixes unlocking of some of the non-uniform chips and gets rid of the
abuse of page_size.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1736.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

Previously we had to rely on dmidecode to decode the DMI/SMBIOS table.
This patch integrates a DMI decoder into flashrom. The old behavior of calling
dmidecode can be brought back by using CONFIG_INTERNAL_DMI=no.

Significant portions of this patch were taken from dmidecode, hence add its
authors to the copyright notice (dmidecode is also GPL2+). We do a few things
differently though. First of all we do more bounds checking to prevent accessing
unmapped memory. We do not support disovery via EFI (yet), but memory
scanning only. We handle the chassis-type lock bit correctly which dmidecode
did not for a long while.

The API to the rest of flashrom remains stable, but the output changes slightly.
To share as much code as possible (which actually is not much), i have added
dmi_fill methods that get called in dmi_init. They are reponsible to fill the
dmi_strings array and setting the is_laptop variable. After it is called, dmi_init
prints all dmi_strings. Previously the strings were printed in the order they were
discovered, followed by the chassis-type, which is now output earlier (in dmi_fill).

Because DJGPP does not support strnlen a simple implementation was added
for it.

This is still only available on x86; actually it is not even compiled in for other
architectures at all anymore.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1735.
Signed-off-by: Sean Nelson <audiohacked@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Tested-by: Maciej Pijanka <maciej.pijanka@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

This allows to use the DOS library trees stored in a user-specified directory.

I have mirrored the needed patches, sources and binaries (the latter
are properly licensed to allow that) in the flashrom wiki, so use those
URLs instead of the original sources.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1734.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

To avoid funny effects of ever changing files tracked by the VCS this patch
moves the manpage data to flashrom.8.tmpl and generates the actual
manpage with a new makefile target if needed.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1728.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>

 - remove bashism.
 - simplify some git-related code.
 - improved parameter and error handling.
 - additional -d/--date action which is similar to the timestamp action.
 - support for an optional path parameter.
 - there is only one sane time format.
 - and only one sane date format too.
 - use UTC dates and times only.
 - vastly improve git_url() to print the correct remote url and
   "nearest" branch.
 - remove username from repository URLs.
 - add "-dirty" to local revisions if there are uncommitted changes.
 - indicate in local revisions how many git-only commits were done
   since branching from upstream svn.
 - fix svn_revision() fallback to svn info and remove git-svn.
 - print leading r in script instead of hardcode it in the makefile;
   no more "0.9.7-runknown".
 - make retrieving the upstream revision work even in cloned git-svn
   repositories.
 - more abstractions and helper functions.
 - less fragmentation of actual functionality.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r1727.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>