Changeset 1387 for trunk/flashrom.8

Timestamp:

07/25/11 23:12:57 (10 months ago)

Author:

uwe

Message:

Random manpage improvements and updates.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@…>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@…>

File:

• trunk/flashrom.8 (modified) (10 diffs)

trunk/flashrom.8

@@ -1 @@
-.TH FLASHROM 8 "Jun 14, 2011"
+.TH FLASHROM 8 "Jul 25, 2011"
 .SH NAME
 flashrom \- detect, read, write, verify and erase flash chips
@@ -13 +13 @@
 is a utility for detecting, 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.
+using a supported mainboard. However, it also supports various external
+PCI/USB/parallel-port/serial-port based devices which can program flash chips,
+including some network cards (NICs), SATA/IDE controller cards, graphics cards,
+the Bus Pirate device, various FTDI FT2232/FT4232H based USB devices, and more.
 .PP
 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.
+TSOP48, and BGA chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH,
+parallel flash, or SPI.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .B IMPORTANT:
@@ -31 +32 @@
 If no operation is specified, flashrom will only probe for flash chips. It is
 recommended that if you try flashrom the first time on a system, you run it
-in probe only mode and check the output. Also you are advised to make a
+in probe-only mode and check the output. Also you are advised to make a
 backup of your current ROM contents with
 .B \-r
@@ -39 +40 @@
 Read flash ROM contents and save them into the given
 .BR <file> .
+If the file already exists, it will be overwritten.
 .TP
 .B "\-w, \-\-write <file>"
@@ -145 +147 @@
 .TP
 .B "\-L, \-\-list\-supported"
-List the flash chips, chipsets, mainboards, and PCI card "programmers"
+List the flash chips, chipsets, mainboards, and external programmers
+(including PCI, USB, parallel port, and serial port based devices)
 supported by flashrom.
 .sp
@@ -161 +164 @@
 .BR \-\-list\-supported ,
 but outputs the supported hardware in MediaWiki syntax, so that it can be
-easily pasted into the wiki page at http://www.flashrom.org/. Please note
-that MediaWiki output is not compiled in by default.
+easily pasted into the wiki page at
+.BR http://www.flashrom.org/ .
+Please note that MediaWiki output is not compiled in by default.
 .TP
 .B "\-p, \-\-programmer <name>[:parameter[,parameter[,parameter]]]"
@@ -490 +494 @@
 .sp
 More information about the hardware is available at
-http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm
+.BR http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm .
 .TP
 .BR "ogp_spi " programmer
@@ -518 +522 @@
 .sp
 More information about the hardware is available at
-http://wiki.opengraphics.org
+.BR http://wiki.opengraphics.org .
 .SH EXIT STATUS
 flashrom exits with 0 on success, 1 on most failures but with 2 if /dev/mem
@@ -572 +576 @@
 .sp
 On OpenBSD, you can obtain raw access permission by setting
-securelevel=-1 in /etc/rc.securelevel and rebooting, or rebooting into single
-user mode.
+.B "securelevel=-1"
+in
+.B "/etc/rc.securelevel"
+and rebooting, or rebooting into single user mode.
 .SH BUGS
 Please report any bugs at
@@ -591 +597 @@
 which interacts badly with any flash attempts. This is a hardware limitation
 and flashrom will attempt to detect it and abort immediately for safety reasons.
+.sp
+More information about flashrom on laptops is available from
+.sp
+.B "  http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops"
 .SH LICENSE
 .B flashrom