Lately there has been questions when people look at the rpi-eeprom git and see things has been updated and think their rpi-eeprom package is out of date. I have not been following the rpi-eeprom git as it is a WIP and can be buggy. They make commits from time to time and then have to either revert or fix issues with their commits. When they get things where they want it then they put out what they call their “Current production bootloader and VLI EEPROM release” and that is what I follow. To be honest they regularly make commits to their git and it could be a long string of having to build new packages to keep up and at the same time there will have the chance of being buggy. This is what I use to package which will always be their latest release:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases/tag/v2020.09.03-138a1
Having said all of that I am not opposed to making an rpi-eeprom-git package from time to time if they have made a commit to fix a bug or if a new feature is added that can not wait for it get into their stable release.
Today I put a rpi-eeprom-git package in the unstable branch as it has some pi 400 related commits. I also put a new rpi-eeprom package in all branches as I added a rpi-eeprom-git conflict in it in case people want to switch back and forth between the 2 packages.
rpi-eeprom 2020.09.03-2 # Added to all branches
rpi-eeprom-git 20201214-1 # Added to the unstable branch
I am also wondering how these packages is going to get along with the new python version in the unstable branch since it uses python scripts. I have not upgraded here to the unstable branch as I like to build everything from the stable branch so if some one is using the unstable branch let me know how things go.
After upgrading the eeprom:
[ray@pi4 ~]$ sudo rpi-eeprom-update
BCM2711 detected
VL805 firmware in bootloader EEPROM
BOOTLOADER: up-to-date
CURRENT: Fri Dec 11 11:15:17 AM UTC 2020 (1607685317)
LATEST: Fri Dec 11 11:15:17 AM UTC 2020 (1607685317)
FW DIR: /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/stable
VL805: up-to-date
CURRENT: 000138a1
LATEST: 000138a1
[ray@pi4 ~]$
[ray@pi4 ~]$ sudo rpi-eeprom-update -r
Removing temporary files from previous EEPROM update