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Flashrom is a utility written for LinuxBIOS and maintained in the LinuxBIOS Subversion repository. It can be used to detect BIOS chips (DIP, PLCC), read their contents and write new contents on the chips ("flashing").

Supported devices

The LinuxBIOSv1 version of Flashrom ("flash_and_burn") only supported a very small number of devices. Always use the latest Flashrom version from LinuxBIOSv2!

Flash chips

Vendor Flash part Status
AMD AM-29F040B OK
AMD AM-29F016D OK
ASD AE49F2008 OK
Atmel AT-29C040A OK
EMST F49B002UA OK
Intel®(Firmware Hub) 82802AB OK
Intel®(Firmware Hub) 82802AC OK
M-Systems MD-2802 OK1
MX MX-29F002 OK
PMC PMC-49FL002 OK
PMC PMC-49FL004 OK
Sharp LHF-00L04 OK
SST SST-29EE020A OK
SST SST-28SF040A OK
SST SST-39SF010A OK
SST SST-39SF020A OK
SST SST-39SF040 OK
SST SST-39VF020 OK
SST SST-49LF040B OK
SST SST-49LF040 OK
SST SST-49LF020A OK
SST SST-49LF080A OK
SST SST-49LF002A/B OK
SST SST-49LF003A/B OK
SST SST-49LF004A/B OK
SST SST-49LF008A OK
SST SST-49LF004C OK
SST SST-49LF008C OK
SST SST-49LF016C OK
SST SST-49LF160C OK
ST ST-M29F400BT OK
ST ST-M29F040B OK
SyncMOS S29C51001T/B OK4
SyncMOS S29C51002T/B OK
SyncMOS S29C51004T/B OK4
SyncMOS S29C31004T OK4
Winbond™ W29C011 OK
Winbond™ W29C020C OK
Winbond™ W49F002U OK
Winbond™ W49V002A OK
Winbond™ W49V002FA OK
Winbond™ W39V040A OK
Winbond™ W39V040B OK

Southbridges

Vendor Southbridge Status
AMD CS5530 ?
AMD Geode™ SC1100 ?
AMD AMD-8111 OK
ATI SB400 ?
Intel®  ICH2 OK3
Intel®  PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M OK
NVIDIA CK804 OK
NVIDIA MCP51 ?
NVIDIA MCP55 OK
SiS 630 ?
SiS 5595 ?
VIA VT8231 ?
VIA VT8235 ?
VIA VT8237 ?
VIA VT82C686 ?

1 Unsupported, disabled by default.
2 This includes the ICH, ICH0, ICH2, ICH2-M, ICH3-S, ICH3-M, ICH4/ICH4-L, ICH4-M, ICH5/ICH5R, ICH6/ICH6R, ICH6-M, ICH7/ICH7R, ICH7M, ICH7MDH, ICH8/ICH8R, ICH8DH, and ICH8DO chipsets.
3 Identifying and reading chips seems to work, but there are reports that writing may not work on some mainboards.
4 Untested, but should work.

Installation

Requirements

Flashrom requires the libpci and zlib development packages in order to be built.

In Debian unstable the respective packages are called libpci-dev and zlib1g-dev.

Manual Installation

$ svn co svn://linuxbios.org/repos/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2 
$ cd LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom
$ make
$ make install

Debian

$ apt-get install flashrom