issue rpi-eeprom-config -e

[Uli007git]

Creating a bug report/issue

• [ x] I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Required Information

• DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version

G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=1
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1
G_GITBRANCH='master'
G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[0]='not applicable'

• Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN

bookworm 0

• Kernel version | uname -a

Linux ThunderPi5 6.1.0-rpi8-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.73-1+rpt1 (2024-01-25) aarch64 GNU/Linux

• SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)

RPi 5 Model B (aarch64)

• Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)

Original RPI 5 power supply 27 W

• SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)

SSD PLUS SanDisk 240 GB

Additional Information (if applicable)

I was trying to fix the RPI5 power consumption during standby as per https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/reducing-raspberry-pi-5s-power-consumption-140x

Steps to reproduce

Edited the eeprom and when I tried to save it it gave me the error and didn't save.

Expected behaviour

Eeprom should be modified after editing and saving it.

Actual behaviour

I'm getting an error message when I try to modify the eeprom

ERROR: EEPROM image 'WARNING: flashrom not found. Setting RPI_EEPROM_USE_FLASHROM to 0
/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader-2712/default/pieeprom-2024-02-16.bin' not found

Extra details

[MichaIng]

Fixed already:

• rpi-eeprom-config: strip flashrom warning from latest image path raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom#547
• rpi-eeprom-update: Output warnings to stderr raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom#549

Until the new package is live, either:

G_CONFIG_INJECT 'RPI_EEPROM_USE_FLASHROM=' 'RPI_EEPROM_USE_FLASHROM=0' /etc/default/rpi-eeprom-update

or:

apt install flashrom

Background:

• Recently, support for flashrom has been integrated into rpi-eeprom-update to allow flashing the EEPROM binary directly, instead of having this done on reboot.
• The variable RPI_EEPROM_USE_FLASHROM has been introduced to use or not use it, which defaults to 1 (use it).
• When you did not set this to 0, but the flashrom tool/package is not installed, rpi-eeprom-update did output a warning whenever executed, even when it is just used to list the latest EEPROM image and not flash anything.
• This warning message hence mixed in the output which should actually contain the latest EEPROM path only, causing an invalid path for rpi-eeprom-config to choke on.

The fix moved the warning form STDOUT to STDERR (so that is is not used by rpi-eeprom-config) and additionally the flashrom check is only done, when actually updating the EEPROM, not anymore when listing available EEPROM binaries or doing other things.

[Uli007git]

Thanks... great job :) !!!

I did the

apt install flashrom