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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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.TH FLASHROM 8 "January 5, 2009"
.SH NAME
flashrom \- a universal BIOS/ROM/flash programming utility
flashrom \- utility for reading, writing, and erasong BIOS/ROM/flash chips
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVfLhR\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end]
[\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [\fB-l\fR file.layout] [\fB-i\fR image_name] [file]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B 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, for example.
.sp
is a utility for reading, writing, and erasing flash ROM chips.
It's often used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images.
.PP
It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, and TSOP chips, which use
various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI.
.PP
(see
.B http://coreboot.org
for details on coreboot)
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If no file is specified, then all that happens
is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
.TP
.B "\-r, \-\-read"
Read flash ROM contents and save them into the given file.
.B "\-r, \-\-read <file>"
Read flash ROM contents and save them into the given
.BR <file> .
.TP
.B "\-w, \-\-write"
Write file into flash ROM (default when file is specified).
.B "\-w, \-\-write <file>"
Write file into flash ROM (default when
.B <file>
is specified).
.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-verify"
Verify the flash ROM contents against the given file.
.B "\-v, \-\-verify <file>"
Verify the flash ROM contents against the given
.BR <file> .
.TP
.B "\-E, \-\-erase"
Erase the flash ROM device.
Erase the flash ROM chip.
.TP
.B "\-V, \-\-verbose"
More verbose output.
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Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those
boards where the coreboot code supports it.
.TP
.B "\-l, \-\-layout" <layout.file>
Read ROM layout from file.
.B "\-l, \-\-layout <file>"
Read ROM layout from
.BR <file> .
.TP
.B "\-i, \-\-image" <name>
.B "\-i, \-\-image <name>"
Only flash image
.B <name>
from flash layout.
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are listed at
.BR http://coreboot.org/Flashrom#Supported_mainboards ,
but the list is not exhaustive, of course.
.sp
Please let us know if you can verify other boards to work or not work out
of the box.
.TP
.B "\-h, \-\-help"
Show a help text and exit.