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doc: Add current numbers of supported devices to the intro page

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Current numbers are taken from the output of `flashrom -L` command.

Intro page still has a room for improvement, but as a first step the
numbers need to be updated. In future, maybe there is a way to update
the numbers less manually.

Change-Id: I7531521955dcf01348ed2ba9c54316b32b9cd925
Signed-off-by: Anastasia Klimchuk <aklm@flashrom.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/83130
Reviewed-by: Peter Marheine <pmarheine@chromium.org>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
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chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards,
network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices.
* Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards, 79 PCI devices,
17 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers.
* Supports more than 627 flash chips, 407 chipsets, 539 mainboards, 94 PCI devices,
30 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers.
For more information, see the pages under :doc:`/supported_hw/index`.
* Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various chip packages (DIP32,
PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40, TSOP48, BGA and more).
* No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed for some programmers).
* No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed.
* No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH.
* No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system, verify it, be happy.
The new firmware will be present next time you boot.
* Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips are electrically
and logically compatible (same protocol). Great for recovery.
* Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same time from the
command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output and error codes.
* Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools.
* Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD (including Debian/kFreeBSD), NetBSD, OpenBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, anything Solaris-like, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes as well as GNU Hurd.
Partial Windows support is available (no internal programmer support at the moment, hence