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+.TH FLASHROM 1 "July 26, 2006"
+.SH NAME
+flashrom \- the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVflih\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname]
+         [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end]
+         [\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [file]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B flashrom
+is the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility.
+.SH OPTIONS
+If no file is specified, then all that happens
+is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
+
+.B "\-r, \-\-read"
+Read flash and save contents into file.
+.PP
+.B "\-w, \-\-write"
+Write file into flash (default when file is specified).
+.PP
+.B "\-v, \-\-verify"
+Verify flash against file.
+.PP
+.B "\-E, \-\-erase"
+Erase flash device.
+.PP
+.B "\-V, \-\-verbose"
+More verbose output.
+.PP
+.B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
+Probe only for specified flash chip.
+.PP
+.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
+Exclude start position.
+.PP
+.B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr>
+Exclude end postion.
+.PP
+.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part>
+Override mainboard settings.
+.PP
+.B "\-f, \-\-force"
+Force write without checking image.
+.PP
+.B "\-l, \-\-layout"
+Read ROM layout from file.
+.PP
+.B "\-i, \-\-image" <name>
+Only flash image name from flash layout.
+.PP
+.B "\-h, \-\-help"
+Show a help text and exit.
+.\".PP
+.\".B "\-\-version"
+.\"Show version information and exit.
+.SH BUGS
+Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/
+.SH LICENCE
+.B flashrom
+is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR romcc (1).
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
+.br
+2004 Tyan Corp
+.br
+2005-2006 coresystems GmbH
+.br
+2003 Niki W. Waibel
+.SH AUTHORS
+Yhlu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
+.br
+Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
+.br
+Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
+.PP
+This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>,
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).