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| author | Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> | 2009-04-10 14:41:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> | 2009-04-10 14:41:29 +0000 |
| commit | a0eeef324fed3f4de11a5896983a4e7ae78e79fe (patch) | |
| tree | 59316607532d73db8be43ca4418d80cba046cfcc /util/flashrom/README | |
| parent | 8d9f932f2a51ee0daea136d0814f163849f5bee1 (diff) | |
Various manpage / README fixes:
- Improve description a bit, especially wrt chip packages and
protocols.
- Add some missing parameters to manpage option descriptions.
- Remove long obsolete DoC support note.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@4088 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
Diffstat (limited to 'util/flashrom/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | util/flashrom/README | 25 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/util/flashrom/README b/util/flashrom/README index 8410d3ff5e..a4eee499dd 100644 --- a/util/flashrom/README +++ b/util/flashrom/README @@ -2,8 +2,11 @@ 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) @@ -46,16 +49,17 @@ Usage Exit status ----------- -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 --------------------------------------------- |