Changeset 693 for trunk/flashrom.8

Timestamp:

08/19/09 17:03:28 (3 years ago)

Author:

hailfinger

Message:

Current programmer parameter syntax is
-p programmer=parameter
Unfortunately, many parameters are of the form variable=val, so we get
commandlines like this:
flashrom -p it87spi=port=0x820
and this looks horrible.

Using : instead of = would make such parameters look better:
flashrom -p it87spi:port=0x820

As a side benefit, this patch mentions the programmer name in the error
message if it is unknown.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@…>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@…>

File:

• trunk/flashrom.8 (modified) (6 diffs)

trunk/flashrom.8

@@ -151 +151 @@
 The dummy programmer has an optional parameter specifying the bus types it
 should support. For that you have to use the
-.B "flashrom -p dummy=type"
+.B "flashrom -p dummy:type"
 syntax where
 .B type
@@ -159 +159 @@
 .sp
 Example:
-.B "flashrom -p dummy=lpc,fwh"
+.B "flashrom -p dummy:lpc,fwh"
 .sp
 If you have multiple supported PCI cards which can program flash chips
 (NICs, SATA/IDE controllers, etc.) in your system, you must use the
-.B "flashrom -p xxxx=bb:dd.f"
+.B "flashrom -p xxxx:bb:dd.f"
 syntax to explicitly select one of them, where
 .B xxxx
@@ -175 +175 @@
 .sp
 Example:
-.B "flashrom -p nic3com=05:04.0"
+.B "flashrom -p nic3com:05:04.0"
 .sp
 Currently the following programmers support this mechanism:
@@ -184 +184 @@
 port of the IT87* SPI controller interface to the port specified in the
 parameter. For that you have to use the
-.B "flashrom -p it87spi=port=portnum"
+.B "flashrom -p it87spi:port=portnum"
 syntax where
 .B portnum
@@ -191 +191 @@
 The ft2232spi programmer has an optional parameter specifying the controller
 type and interface/port it should support. For that you have to use the
-.B "flashrom -p ft2232spi=model,port=interface"
+.B "flashrom -p ft2232spi:model,port=interface"
 syntax where
 .B model
@@ -209 +209 @@
 device/baud combination or an IP/port combination for communication with the
 programmer. For serial, you have to use the
-.B "flashrom -p serprog=/dev/device:baud"
+.B "flashrom -p serprog:/dev/device:baud"
 syntax and for IP, you have to use
-.B "flashrom -p serprog=ip:port"
+.B "flashrom -p serprog:ip:port"
 instead. More information about serprog is available in serprog-protocol.txt in
 the source distribution.