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1 Flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying
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2 and erasing flash chips.
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3 It is designed to flash BIOS, EFI, coreboot, firmware, and optionROM
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4 images on mainboards, network, graphics, and storage controller cards,
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5 and various other programmer devices.
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6
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7 * Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards,
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8 79 PCI devices, 17 USB devices and various parallel and serial
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9 port-based programmers.
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10 * Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various
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11 chip packages (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40,
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12 TSOP48, BGA and more)
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13 * No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed
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14 for some programmers).
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15 * No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed.
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16 * No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH.
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17 * No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system,
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18 verify it, be happy. The new firmware will be present next time
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19 you boot.
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20 * Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips
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21 are electrically and logically compatible (same protocol).
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22 Great for recovery.
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23 * Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same
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24 time from the command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output
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25 and error codes.
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26 * Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools.
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27 * Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD (including Debian/kFreeBSD),
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28 NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, anything Solaris-like, Mac OS X, and
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29 other Unix-like OSes as well as GNU Hurd.
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