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Kill obsolete exclude range feature

It is ignored by almost every chip and does not work for external
flashers. Plus, it gives the user a false sense of security in some
corner cases.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r608.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-06-19 11:23:57 +00:00
parent 20a293fc68
commit 49eb4dd704
3 changed files with 7 additions and 60 deletions

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@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
flashrom \- detect, read, write, verify and erase flash chips
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B flashrom \fR[\fB\-VfLzhR\fR] [\fB\-E\fR|\fB\-r\fR file|\fB\-w\fR file|\fB\-v\fR file]
[\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR addr] [\fB\-e\fR addr] [\fB\-m\fR [vendor:]part]
[\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-m\fR [vendor:]part]
[\fB\-l\fR file] [\fB\-i\fR image] [\fB\-p\fR programmer] [file]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B flashrom
@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ More verbose output.
.TP
.B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
Probe only for specified flash ROM chip.
.TP
.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
Exclude start position (obsolete).
.sp
flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of
the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows:
@ -81,9 +78,6 @@ ROM layouts should replace the \-s and \-e option since they are more
flexible and they should lead to a ROM update file format with the
ROM layout and the ROM image in one file (cpio, zip or something?).
.TP
.B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr>
Exclude end postion (obsolete).
.TP
.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part>
Override mainboard settings.
.sp