1 .TH FLASHROM 8 "January 18, 2008"
3 flashrom \- a universal BIOS/ROM/flash programming utility
5 .B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVfhR\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end]
6 [\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [\fB-l\fR file.layout] [\fB-i\fR image_name] [file]
9 is a universal flash programming utility for DIP, PLCC, or SPI flash ROM
10 chips. It can be used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images, for example.
13 .B http://coreboot.org
14 for details on coreboot)
16 If no file is specified, then all that happens
17 is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
20 Read flash ROM contents and save them into the given file.
23 Write file into flash ROM (default when file is specified).
26 Verify the flash ROM contents against the given file.
29 Erase the flash ROM device.
34 .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
35 Probe only for specified flash ROM chip.
37 .B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
38 Exclude start position (obsolete).
40 .B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr>
41 Exclude end postion (obsolete).
43 .B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part>
44 Override mainboard settings. This option is needed for some mainboards,
50 Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant
51 to be used on this board.
53 Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those
54 boards where the coreboot code supports it.
56 .B "\-l, \-\-layout" <layout.file>
57 Read ROM layout from file.
59 .B "\-i, \-\-image" <name>
65 Show a help text and exit.
68 Show version information and exit.
70 Please report any bugs at
71 .BR http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/newticket ","
72 or on the coreboot mailing list
73 .RB "(" http://coreboot.org/Mailinglist ")."
76 is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
78 2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
84 2005-2007 coresystems GmbH
86 Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
88 Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
90 Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
94 This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
95 It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).