1 .\" Copyright (C) 2006 Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
2 .\" This manpage is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
3 .TH FLASHROM 1 "July 26, 2006"
5 flashrom \- the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility
7 .B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVfh\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end]
8 [\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [\fB-l\fR file.layout] [\fB-i\fR image_name] [file]
11 is the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility.
13 If no file is specified, then all that happens
14 is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
17 Read flash and save contents into file.
20 Write file into flash (default when file is specified).
23 Verify flash against file.
31 .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
32 Probe only for specified flash chip.
34 .B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
35 Exclude start position. (obsolete)
37 .B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr>
38 Exclude end postion. (obsolete)
40 .B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part>
41 Override mainboard settings.
44 Force write without checking image.
46 .B "\-l, \-\-layout" <layout.file>
47 Read ROM layout from file.
49 .B "\-i, \-\-image" <name>
50 Only flash image name from flash layout.
53 Show a help text and exit.
56 .\"Show version information and exit.
58 Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/.
61 is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).
65 2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
71 2005-2006 coresystems GmbH
73 Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
75 Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
77 Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
81 This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>,
82 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).