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Description: Identify, read, write, erase, and verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips
flashrom is a tool for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing
flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM
images in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of
network cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which
can program flash chips.
.
It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32/40/48,
and BGA chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel
flash, or SPI.
.
The tool can be used to flash BIOS/firmware images for example -- be it
proprietary BIOS images or coreboot (previously known as LinuxBIOS) images.
.
It can also be used to read the current existing BIOS/firmware from a
flash chip.
.
Currently supported programmers include:
.
* internal (default, for in-system flashing in the mainboard)
* dummy (virtual programmer for testing flashrom)
* nic3com (for flash ROMs on 3COM network cards)
* nicrealtek (for flash ROMs on Realtek network cards)
* nicsmc1211 (for flash ROMs on RTL8139-compatible SMC2 network cards)
* nicnatsemi (for flash ROMs on National Semiconductor DP838* network cards)
* nicintel (for parallel flash ROMs on Intel 10/100Mbit network cards)
* gfxnvidia (for flash ROMs on NVIDIA graphics cards)
* drkaiser (for flash ROMs on Dr. Kaiser PC-Waechter PCI cards)
* satasii (for flash ROMs on Silicon Image SATA/IDE controllers)
* satamv (for flash ROMs on Marvell SATA controllers)
* atahpt (for flash ROMs on Highpoint ATA/RAID controllers)
* ft2232_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to an FT2232/FT4232H
family based USB SPI programmer), including the DLP Design DLP-USB1232H,
FTDI FT2232H Mini-Module, FTDI FT4232H Mini-Module, openbiosprog-spi,
Amontec JTAGkey/JTAGkey-tiny/JTAGkey-2, Olimex ARM-USB-TINY/-H, and
Olimex ARM-USB-OCD/-H.
* serprog (for flash ROMs attached to a programmer speaking serprog),
including AVR flasher by Urja Rannikko, AVR flasher by eightdot,
Arduino Mega flasher by fritz, InSystemFlasher by Juhana Helovuo,
and atmegaXXu2-flasher by Stefan Tauner.
* buspirate_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a Bus Pirate)
* dediprog (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a Dediprog SF100)
* rayer_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a RayeR parport based programmer)
* pony_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a SI-Prog serial port
bitbanging adapter)
* nicintel_spi (for SPI flash ROMs on Intel Gigabit network cards)
* ogp_spi (for SPI flash ROMs on Open Graphics Project graphics card)
* linux_spi (for SPI flash ROMs accessible via /dev/spidevX.Y on Linux)
Description: Identify, read, write, erase, and verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips
flashrom is a tool for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing
flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images
in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of
network cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which
can program flash chips.
.
It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40,
and TSOP48 chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel
flash, or SPI.
.
The tool can be used to flash BIOS/firmware images for example -- be it
proprietary BIOS images or coreboot (previously known as LinuxBIOS) images.
.
It can also be used to read the current existing BIOS/firmware from a
flash chip.
--- 132744 Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
+++ 73556 Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
Identify, read, write, erase, and verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips
flashrom is a tool for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing
- flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM
- images in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of
+ flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images
+ in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of
network cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which
can program flash chips.
.
- It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32/40/48,
- and BGA chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel
+ It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40,
+ and TSOP48 chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel
flash, or SPI.
.
The tool can be used to flash BIOS/firmware images for example -- be it
@@ -14,35 +14,3 @@
.
It can also be used to read the current existing BIOS/firmware from a
flash chip.
- .
- Currently supported programmers include:
- .
- * internal (default, for in-system flashing in the mainboard)
- * dummy (virtual programmer for testing flashrom)
- * nic3com (for flash ROMs on 3COM network cards)
- * nicrealtek (for flash ROMs on Realtek network cards)
- * nicsmc1211 (for flash ROMs on RTL8139-compatible SMC2 network cards)
- * nicnatsemi (for flash ROMs on National Semiconductor DP838* network cards)
- * nicintel (for parallel flash ROMs on Intel 10/100Mbit network cards)
- * gfxnvidia (for flash ROMs on NVIDIA graphics cards)
- * drkaiser (for flash ROMs on Dr. Kaiser PC-Waechter PCI cards)
- * satasii (for flash ROMs on Silicon Image SATA/IDE controllers)
- * satamv (for flash ROMs on Marvell SATA controllers)
- * atahpt (for flash ROMs on Highpoint ATA/RAID controllers)
- * ft2232_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to an FT2232/FT4232H
- family based USB SPI programmer), including the DLP Design DLP-USB1232H,
- FTDI FT2232H Mini-Module, FTDI FT4232H Mini-Module, openbiosprog-spi,
- Amontec JTAGkey/JTAGkey-tiny/JTAGkey-2, Olimex ARM-USB-TINY/-H, and
- Olimex ARM-USB-OCD/-H.
- * serprog (for flash ROMs attached to a programmer speaking serprog),
- including AVR flasher by Urja Rannikko, AVR flasher by eightdot,
- Arduino Mega flasher by fritz, InSystemFlasher by Juhana Helovuo,
- and atmegaXXu2-flasher by Stefan Tauner.
- * buspirate_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a Bus Pirate)
- * dediprog (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a Dediprog SF100)
- * rayer_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a RayeR parport based programmer)
- * pony_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a SI-Prog serial port
- bitbanging adapter)
- * nicintel_spi (for SPI flash ROMs on Intel Gigabit network cards)
- * ogp_spi (for SPI flash ROMs on Open Graphics Project graphics card)
- * linux_spi (for SPI flash ROMs accessible via /dev/spidevX.Y on Linux)