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Some cosmetics in README and manpage

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Also, move more stuff to the manpage where it belongs (this also
eliminates some duplicated contents).

Corresponding to flashrom svn r460.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
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Uwe Hermann
2009-05-05 16:15:46 +00:00
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@ -49,15 +49,49 @@ 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:
.sp
00000000:00008fff gfxrom
00009000:0003ffff normal
00040000:0007ffff fallback
.sp
i.e.:
startaddr:endaddr name
.sp
All addresses are offsets within the file, not absolute addresses!
If you only want to update the normal image in a ROM you can say:
.sp
.B " flashrom -w --layout rom.layout --image normal agami_aruma.rom"
.sp
To update normal and fallback but leave the VGA BIOS alone, say:
.sp
.B " flashrom -w -l rom.layout -i normal \"
.br
.B " -i fallback agami_aruma.rom"
.sp
Currently overlapping sections are not supported.
.sp
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. This option is needed for some mainboards,
see the
.B "flashrom \-\-list\-supported"
output for a list. The vendor is not required when the board name is unique.
Override mainboard settings.
.sp
flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no
coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can
specify -m, e.g.:
.sp
.B " flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom"
.sp
See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom -L' for
a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no
coreboot table is found.
.TP
.B "\-f, \-\-force"
Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant