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Corresponding to flashrom svn r453. Signed-off-by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
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flashrom README
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flashrom is a utility for reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash ROM
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chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images.
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It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, and
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TSOP40 chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash,
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or SPI.
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(see http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot)
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Build Requirements
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To build the flashrom utility you need to install the following packages or
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ports:
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Linux et al:
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* pciutils
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* pciutils-devel / pciutils-dev / libpci-dev
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* zlib-devel / zlib1g-dev
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On FreeBSD, you need the following ports:
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* devel/gmake
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* devel/libpci
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To compile on FreeBSD, use the command below:
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gmake
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To compile on Solaris, use the commands below:
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gmake LDFLAGS="-L$pathtolibpci -lpci -lz" CC="gcc -I$pathtopciheaders" CFLAGS=-O2
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To compile on DragonFly BSD, use the commands below:
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ln -s /usr/pkg/include/pciutils pci
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gmake CFLAGS=-I. LDFLAGS="-L/usr/pkg/lib -lpci -lz"
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To compile and run on Darwin/Mac OS X:
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Install DirectIO from coresystems GmbH.
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DirectIO is available at http://www.coresystems.de/en/directio
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Usage / Options
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Please see the flashrom(8) manpage.
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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
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(/dev/xsvc on Solaris) can not be opened and with 3 if a call to mmap() fails.
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coreboot Table and Mainboard Identification
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flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no
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coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can
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specify -m, e.g.:
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$ flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom
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See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom -L' for
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a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no
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coreboot table is found.
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ROM Layout Support
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flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of
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the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows:
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00000000:00008fff gfxrom
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00009000:0003ffff normal
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00040000:0007ffff fallback
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i.e.:
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startaddr:endaddr name
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All addresses are offsets within the file, not absolute addresses!
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If you only want to update the normal image in a ROM you can say:
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flashrom -w --layout rom.layout --image normal agami_aruma.rom
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To update normal and fallback but leave the VGA BIOS alone, say:
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flashrom -w -l rom.layout -i normal -i fallback agami_aruma.rom
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Currently overlapping sections are not supported.
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ROM layouts should replace the -s and -e option since they are more
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flexible and they should lead to a ROM update file format with the
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ROM layout and the ROM image in one file (cpio, zip or something?).
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Supported Flash Chips / Chipsets / Mainboards
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Please check the output of 'flashrom -L' for the list of supported
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flash chips, chipsets/southbridges, and mainboards.
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See also http://coreboot.org/Flashrom for more details.
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