From 383894382968ce611e08802ac95aeddb729de8fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 23:16:29 +0100 Subject: docs/index.html: improve instructions for finding version info --- docs/index.html | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index bf49d7b7..720043e1 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -164,10 +164,20 @@ (or you have any upstream 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:
cat (cbfsdisk)/lbversion
+ This will also work on non-release images, built from the git repository. A file named version will also be included in the archives that you downloaded (if you are using release archives).

+

+ If it exists, you can also extract this lbversion file by using the cbfstool 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 (libreboot.rom, in this example):
+ $ ./cbfstool libreboot.rom extract -n lbversion -f lbversion
+ You will now have a file, named lbversion, which you can read in whatever programme + it is that you use for reading/writing text files. +

+

For git, it's easy. Just check the git log.

@@ -180,7 +190,8 @@ lscoreboot
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 release.html.

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