The firmware hash number that the "rpi-update" script checks is saved in the file /boot/.firmware_revision (after rpi-update has been run at least once) and refers to
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There's also
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which seems to be exactly the same but with different hash numbers. Does that second set of hashes also show up in Raspbian somewhere? It's not what "vcgencmd version" prints, which is yet another hash. To what does *that* refer?
Thanks for any insight.
(also posted at
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but no response yet)