From de5ea9f761c322c0ba007ced4b11c3f4e7bb0684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Gover <tim.gover@raspberrypi.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:35:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] rpi-eeprom-update: Skip VL805 updates if lspci is not
 available

lspci is only required to read the current version of the VL805
firmware. Some distros do not install pciutils by default, so don't
treat a missing lspci as fatal.

Only Pi4B boards before rev 1.4 have a dedicated VL805 SPI EEPROM so
only suggest installing pciutils on those boards.

Fixes: #884
---
 rpi-eeprom-update | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rpi-eeprom-update b/rpi-eeprom-update
index 647bbd22..1e988bdd 100755
--- a/rpi-eeprom-update
+++ b/rpi-eeprom-update
@@ -701,10 +701,6 @@ checkDependencies() {
       die "rpi-eeprom-digest not found. Try re-installing the rpi-eeprom package"
    fi
 
-   if ! command -v lspci > /dev/null; then
-      die "lspci not found. Try installing the pciutils package."
-   fi
-
    if ! command -v strings > /dev/null; then
       die "strings not found. Try installing the binutils package."
    fi
@@ -938,12 +934,16 @@ printVersions()
       fi
       if [ "${ACTION_UPDATE_VL805}" = 1 ]; then
          echo "   VL805: update available"
-      else
-         if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
-            echo "     VL805: up to date"
+      elif ! command -v lspci > /dev/null; then
+         if [ "${HAVE_VL805_EEPROM}" = 1 ]; then
+            echo "     VL805: version unknown. Try installing the pciutils package."
          else
-            echo "     VL805: version unknown. Try sudo rpi-eeprom-update"
+            echo "     VL805: version unknown (lspci not found)"
          fi
+      elif [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
+         echo "     VL805: up to date"
+      else
+         echo "     VL805: version unknown. Try sudo rpi-eeprom-update"
       fi
 
       echo "   CURRENT: ${VL805_CURRENT_VERSION}"
@@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ getVL805CurrentVersion()
    # root then treat the version as unknown and skip VLI updates.
    VL805_CURRENT_VERSION=""
 
-   if [ "${BCM_CHIP}" = 2711 ]; then
+   if [ "${BCM_CHIP}" = 2711 ] && command -v lspci > /dev/null; then
       if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
             vlver="$(lspci -d 1106:3483 -xxx | awk '/^50:/ { print "VL805 FW version: " $5 $4 $3 $2 }')"
          if [ -n "${vlver}" ]; then