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RPi Imager downloads older bootloader version #191
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This is as expected, see https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/eeprom_recovery.json I think I asked @timg236 before about this discrepancy between the "release date" (as displayed by RPi Imager) and the actual date of the EEPROM image, and he said this was by design? ping also @XECDesign as I believe it's him that updates these JSON files. |
The imager is downloading the correct version 2020-09-03. However, the "Released: 2021-03-08" string seems to refer to the "Github release" of the zip files which will change if they are repackaged. I don't think the Github release number is useful and AFAIK we can't control it. Therefore, I think it could either be removed or replaced with a string from the JSON config file. |
@XECDesign has updated the JSON file and it now displays the correct release date |
As much as I like that the blame was shifted to somebody else, it was actually me. My reason for it was based on the assumption that we could potentially have a VL805 update without a bootloader update, so it made sense to me to use the github release date as the release date. However, it looks like we'd bump the bootloader version string as well in that scenario, so using the date from github only adds confusion. |
I was trying to flash the new bootloader version and RPi Imager indicates that it will download the latest one
But after flashing, it turns out that it was the older
2020-09-03-vl805-000138a1
versionI further confirmed it when I checked the hash of what what I'm getting from the imager and the bootloader files I manually downloaded from the rpi-eeprom release page
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