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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-06-09 18:16:29 (EDT)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-06-09 18:16:29 (EDT)
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docs/index.html: improve instructions for finding version info
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@@ -164,11 +164,21 @@
(or you have any <b>upstream</b> stable release of libreboot after 20150518), then you can
press C at the GRUB console, and use this command to find out what version of libreboot you have:<br/>
<b>cat (cbfsdisk)/lbversion</b><br/>
+ This will also work on non-release images, built from the git repository.
A file named <i>version</i> will also be included in the archives that you downloaded (if you are
using release archives).
</p>
<p>
+ If it exists, you can also extract this <i>lbversion</i> file by using the <i>cbfstool</i> utility
+ which libreboot includes, from a ROM image that you either dumped or haven't flashed yet.
+ In GNU/Linux, run cbfstool on your ROM image (<i>libreboot.rom</i>, in this example):<br/>
+ $ <b>./cbfstool libreboot.rom extract -n lbversion -f lbversion</b><br/>
+ You will now have a file, named <i>lbversion</i>, which you can read in whatever programme
+ it is that you use for reading/writing text files.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
For git, it's easy. Just check the git log.
</p>
@@ -180,7 +190,8 @@
<b>lscoreboot</b><br/>
You may find a date in here, detailing when that ROM image was built. For pre-built images distributed
by the libreboot project, this is a rough approximation of what version you have, because the version
- numbers are dated, and the release archives are typically built on the same day as the release.
+ numbers are dated, and the release archives are typically built on the same day as the release; you can
+ correlate that with the release information in <a href="release.html">release.html</a>.
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