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To make the flashchips "database" easier to manage, split it by vendor into several smaller files. This commit transfers the bulk of the data to separate files and includes them from `flashchips.c`. Although this is ugly (.c includes are usually frowned upon), it is a necessary evil to make this commit reproducible. Tested in two ways: 1) Output of `flashrom -L` has no diffs with/without the patch compared with diff and cmp tools 2) flashrom binary has no diffs with/without the patch compared with diff and cmp tools Note for binary comparison documentation and manpages need to be disabled (documentation is actually modified in the patch), also version in meson.build set to "none" (otherwise git version counts every commit). Change-Id: I3a9ebb0575e2700c5871d16875495d9c8943b30b Co-developed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Anastasia Klimchuk <aklm@flashrom.org> Signed-off-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anastasia Klimchuk <aklm@flashrom.org> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/83307 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Peter Marheine <pmarheine@chromium.org>
flashrom README
===============
flashrom is a utility for detecting, reading, writing, verifying and erasing
flash chips. It is often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images
in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network
cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can
program flash chips.
It supports a wide range of flash chips (most commonly found in SOIC8, DIP8,
SOIC16, WSON8, PLCC32, DIP32, TSOP32, and TSOP40 packages), which use various
protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI.
Do not use flashrom on laptops (yet)! The embedded controller (EC) present in
many laptops might interact badly with any attempts to communicate with the
flash chip and may brick your laptop.
Please make a backup of your flash chip before writing to it.
Please see the flashrom(8) manpage :doc:`classic_cli_manpage`.
Building / installing / packaging
---------------------------------
flashrom is built with **meson**. TLDR:
::
meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir
meson test -C builddir
meson install -C builddir
For full detailed instructions, follow the information in
:doc:`dev_guide/building_from_source`
Contact
-------
The official flashrom website is:
https://www.flashrom.org/
For available contact methods see :doc:`contact`