.TH FLASHROM 1 "December 20, 2006"
.SH NAME
flashrom \- a universal flash programming utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVfh\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end]
         [\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [\fB-l\fR file.layout] [\fB-i\fR image_name] [file]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B flashrom
is a universal flash programming utility for flash chips
(e.g. in DIP or PLCC packaging). It can be used to flash BIOS images,
for example.
.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.
.TP
.B "\-r, \-\-read"
Read flash and save contents into file.
.TP
.B "\-w, \-\-write"
Write file into flash (default when file is specified).
.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-verify"
Verify flash against file.
.TP
.B "\-E, \-\-erase"
Erase flash device.
.TP
.B "\-V, \-\-verbose"
More verbose output.
.TP
.B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
Probe only for specified flash chip.
.TP
.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
Exclude start position. (obsolete)
.TP
.B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr> 
Exclude end postion. (obsolete)
.TP
.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part>
Override mainboard settings.
.TP
.B "\-f, \-\-force"
Force write without checking image.
.TP
.B "\-l, \-\-layout" <layout.file>
Read ROM layout from file.
.TP
.B "\-i, \-\-image" <name>
Only flash image name from flash layout.
.TP
.B "\-h, \-\-help"
Show a help text and exit.
.\".TP
.\".B "\-\-version"
.\"Show version information and exit.
.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs at http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/.
.SH LICENCE
.B flashrom
is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR romcc (1),
.BR abuild (1).
.SH COPYRIGHT
2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
.br
2003 Niki W. Waibel
.br
2004 Tyan Corp
.br
2005-2007 coresystems GmbH
.SH AUTHORS
Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
.br
Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
.br
Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
.br
some others 
.PP
This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).