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     1.4 +Flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying
     1.5 +and erasing flash chips.
     1.6 +It is designed to flash BIOS, EFI, coreboot, firmware, and optionROM
     1.7 +images on mainboards, network, graphics, and storage controller cards,
     1.8 +and various other programmer devices.
     1.9 +
    1.10 +* Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards,
    1.11 +  79 PCI devices, 17 USB devices and various parallel and serial
    1.12 +  port-based programmers.
    1.13 +* Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various
    1.14 +  chip packages (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40,
    1.15 +  TSOP48, BGA and more)
    1.16 +* No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed
    1.17 +  for some programmers).
    1.18 +* No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed.
    1.19 +* No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH.
    1.20 +* No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system,
    1.21 +  verify it, be happy. The new firmware will be present next time
    1.22 +  you boot.
    1.23 +* Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips
    1.24 +  are electrically and logically compatible (same protocol).
    1.25 +  Great for recovery.
    1.26 +* Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same
    1.27 +  time from the command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output
    1.28 +  and error codes.
    1.29 +* Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools.
    1.30 +* Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD (including Debian/kFreeBSD),
    1.31 +  NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, anything Solaris-like, Mac OS X, and
    1.32 +  other Unix-like OSes as well as GNU Hurd.