Changeset 460 for trunk/flashrom.8


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Timestamp:
05/05/09 18:15:46 (3 years ago)
Author:
uwe
Message:

Some cosmetics in README and manpage. Also, move more stuff to the manpage
where it belongs (this also eliminates some duplicated contents).

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@…>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@…>

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  • trunk/flashrom.8

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    5050.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr> 
    5151Exclude start position (obsolete). 
     52.sp 
     53flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of 
     54the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows: 
     55.sp 
     56  00000000:00008fff gfxrom 
     57  00009000:0003ffff normal 
     58  00040000:0007ffff fallback 
     59.sp 
     60  i.e.: 
     61  startaddr:endaddr name 
     62.sp 
     63All addresses are offsets within the file, not absolute addresses! 
     64If you only want to update the normal image in a ROM you can say: 
     65.sp 
     66.B "  flashrom -w --layout rom.layout --image normal agami_aruma.rom" 
     67.sp 
     68To update normal and fallback but leave the VGA BIOS alone, say: 
     69.sp 
     70.B "  flashrom -w -l rom.layout -i normal \" 
     71.br 
     72.B "           -i fallback agami_aruma.rom" 
     73.sp 
     74Currently overlapping sections are not supported. 
     75.sp 
     76ROM layouts should replace the -s and -e option since they are more 
     77flexible and they should lead to a ROM update file format with the 
     78ROM layout and the ROM image in one file (cpio, zip or something?). 
    5279.TP 
    5380.B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr>  
    … …  
    5582.TP 
    5683.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part> 
    57 Override mainboard settings. This option is needed for some mainboards, 
    58 see the 
    59 .B "flashrom \-\-list\-supported" 
    60 output for a list. The vendor is not required when the board name is unique. 
     84Override mainboard settings. 
     85.sp 
     86flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no 
     87coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can 
     88specify -m, e.g.: 
     89.sp 
     90.B "  flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom" 
     91.sp 
     92See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom -L' for 
     93a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no 
     94coreboot table is found. 
    6195.TP 
    6296.B "\-f, \-\-force" 
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