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| = Welcome to flashrom =
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| flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images.
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| * Supports more than 160 flash chips, 75 chipsets, 100 mainboards, and 10 PCI devices which can be used as external programmers.
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| * Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various chip packages (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40 and more)
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| * No physical access needed, root access is sufficient.
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| * No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed.
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| * No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH.
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| * No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system, verify it, be happy. The new firmware will be present next time you boot.
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| * Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips are electrically and logically compatible (same protocol). Great for recovery.
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| * Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same time from the command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output and error codes.
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| * Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools.
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| * Portability. Supports Linux, FreeBSD, DragonFly? BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes.
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| See http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom for more information. The flashrom mailing list can be found at http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
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