wok-current annotate flashrom/description.txt @ rev 25652

Fix get-texlive for 2008 version, add collection-latex
author Stanislas Leduc <shann@slitaz.org>
date Wed Feb 07 18:01:05 2024 +0000 (10 months ago)
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Hans-G?nter@24555 1 Flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying
Hans-G?nter@24555 2 and erasing flash chips.
Hans-G?nter@24555 3 It is designed to flash BIOS, EFI, coreboot, firmware, and optionROM
Hans-G?nter@24555 4 images on mainboards, network, graphics, and storage controller cards,
Hans-G?nter@24555 5 and various other programmer devices.
Hans-G?nter@24555 6
Hans-G?nter@24555 7 * Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards,
Hans-G?nter@24555 8 79 PCI devices, 17 USB devices and various parallel and serial
Hans-G?nter@24555 9 port-based programmers.
Hans-G?nter@24555 10 * Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various
Hans-G?nter@24555 11 chip packages (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40,
Hans-G?nter@24555 12 TSOP48, BGA and more)
Hans-G?nter@24555 13 * No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed
Hans-G?nter@24555 14 for some programmers).
Hans-G?nter@24555 15 * No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed.
Hans-G?nter@24555 16 * No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH.
Hans-G?nter@24555 17 * No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system,
Hans-G?nter@24555 18 verify it, be happy. The new firmware will be present next time
Hans-G?nter@24555 19 you boot.
Hans-G?nter@24555 20 * Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips
Hans-G?nter@24555 21 are electrically and logically compatible (same protocol).
Hans-G?nter@24555 22 Great for recovery.
Hans-G?nter@24555 23 * Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same
Hans-G?nter@24555 24 time from the command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output
Hans-G?nter@24555 25 and error codes.
Hans-G?nter@24555 26 * Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools.
Hans-G?nter@24555 27 * Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD (including Debian/kFreeBSD),
Hans-G?nter@24555 28 NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, anything Solaris-like, Mac OS X, and
Hans-G?nter@24555 29 other Unix-like OSes as well as GNU Hurd.