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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Thu Jul 14 06:40:01 2022 +0100 (2022-07-14) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/flashrom/description.txt Thu Jul 14 06:40:01 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ 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.