| Stefan Reinauer | 261144c | 2006-07-27 23:29:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .TH FLASHROM 1 "July 26, 2006" |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | flashrom \- the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVflih\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname] |
| 6 | [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end] |
| 7 | [\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [file] |
| 8 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 9 | .B flashrom |
| 10 | is the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility. |
| 11 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 12 | If no file is specified, then all that happens |
| 13 | is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | .B "\-r, \-\-read" |
| 16 | Read flash and save contents into file. |
| 17 | .PP |
| 18 | .B "\-w, \-\-write" |
| 19 | Write file into flash (default when file is specified). |
| 20 | .PP |
| 21 | .B "\-v, \-\-verify" |
| 22 | Verify flash against file. |
| 23 | .PP |
| 24 | .B "\-E, \-\-erase" |
| 25 | Erase flash device. |
| 26 | .PP |
| 27 | .B "\-V, \-\-verbose" |
| 28 | More verbose output. |
| 29 | .PP |
| 30 | .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname> |
| 31 | Probe only for specified flash chip. |
| 32 | .PP |
| 33 | .B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr> |
| 34 | Exclude start position. |
| 35 | .PP |
| 36 | .B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr> |
| 37 | Exclude end postion. |
| 38 | .PP |
| 39 | .B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part> |
| 40 | Override mainboard settings. |
| 41 | .PP |
| 42 | .B "\-f, \-\-force" |
| 43 | Force write without checking image. |
| 44 | .PP |
| 45 | .B "\-l, \-\-layout" |
| 46 | Read ROM layout from file. |
| 47 | .PP |
| 48 | .B "\-i, \-\-image" <name> |
| 49 | Only flash image name from flash layout. |
| 50 | .PP |
| 51 | .B "\-h, \-\-help" |
| 52 | Show a help text and exit. |
| 53 | .\".PP |
| 54 | .\".B "\-\-version" |
| 55 | .\"Show version information and exit. |
| 56 | .SH BUGS |
| 57 | Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/ |
| 58 | .SH LICENCE |
| 59 | .B flashrom |
| 60 | is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL). |
| 61 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 62 | .BR romcc (1). |
| 63 | .SH COPYRIGHT |
| 64 | 2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation |
| 65 | .br |
| 66 | 2004 Tyan Corp |
| 67 | .br |
| 68 | 2005-2006 coresystems GmbH |
| 69 | .br |
| 70 | 2003 Niki W. Waibel |
| 71 | .SH AUTHORS |
| 72 | Yhlu <yinghai.lu@amd.com> |
| 73 | .br |
| 74 | Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de> |
| 75 | .br |
| 76 | Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net> |
| 77 | .PP |
| 78 | This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>, |
| 79 | for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). |