Re: [Libreboot-dev] Suggestions for documentation, keymap, and SHA512SUM

[Leah Rowe]

Hi,

On 26/08/16 02:30, Kete Foy wrote:
> Thanks for the recent release—some suggestions I thought was to (1)
> mention downloading the ROM from rom/ and then the directory for the
> user's bootloader.

Already done.

> 2. This page mentions (flashrom -r) when maybe it should say (flash -r):
> https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html#ich9gen

This is actually correct.

> 3. I request a uscolemak keymap please.

Please tell me the name of it in your distro. The exact name.
Alternatively read:
https://libreboot.org/docs/grub/index.html
(and submit a patch)

> 4. I don't know where the key for the SHA512SUM.sig is.
> 
> 5. In the SHA512SUM, the rom files are prefixed with 'rom/grub', so the
> checksum fails until I made those directories and moved the file into them.

This is self-explanatory from looking at the file, and I've updated the
page accordingly on libreboot.org/gpg/ to reflect this.

> 6. You should instruct users to run make in the flashrom directory
> before running flash.

The 20160902 release fixes the build system so that binaries are once
again included in the util archive.

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Leah Rowe

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