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Various manpage / README fixes

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- Improve description a bit, especially wrt chip packages and
   protocols.

 - Add some missing parameters to manpage option descriptions.

 - Remove long obsolete DoC support note.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r425 and coreboot v2 svn r4088.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
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2009-04-10 14:41:29 +00:00
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Flashrom README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Flashrom is a universal flash programming utility for DIP, PLCC, or SPI
flash ROM chips. It can be used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images.
Flashrom is a utility for reading, writing, and erasing flash ROM chips.
It's often used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images.
It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, and TSOP chips, which use
various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI.
(see http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot)
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Exit status
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flashrom exits with 0 on success, 1 on most failures but with 2 if /dev/mem
Flashrom exits with 0 on success, 1 on most failures but with 2 if /dev/mem
(/dev/xsvc on Solaris) can not be opened and with 3 if a call to mmap() fails.
coreboot Table and Mainboard Identification
--------------------------------------------
Flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard
(parse DMI as well in future?). If no coreboot table could be read
or if you want to override these values, you can specify -m, e.g.:
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.:
$ flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom
@ -94,15 +98,6 @@ 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?).
Disk on Chip support
--------------------
Disk on Chip support was removed from flashrom in r3382. It had already
been disabled by default in flashrom for several years because the code
was considered unstable and incomplete. The products intended to work
have been End-Of-Lifed by the manufacturer for a long time.
Supported Flash Chips / Chipsets / Mainboards
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