Flashrom

flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various programmer devices. Supports more than 225 flash chips, 128 chipsets, 186 mainboards, and 17 devices (PCI or USB) which can be used as external programmers. Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various chip packages (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40, TSOP48, and more) No physical access needed, root access is sufficient. No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed. No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH. 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. Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips are electrically and logically compatible (same protocol). Great for recovery. 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. Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools. Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes. Partial Windows support is available (full support as patch). Emergency help IMPORTANT: If something went wrong during flashing, do NOT turn off/reboot your computer. Instead, let us help you recover. We can be contacted via IRC (#flashrom on irc.freenode.net) or email. Please allow for a few hours until someone responds on IRC, we're all volunteers. X About Find out more about flashrom. News | Press | History | Friendliness | Feature comparison X Developers Get involved! Help us make flashrom better. Development Guidelines | Browse Source | Pending patches | Technology | Random notes | Easy projects | Board Testing HOWTO| Board Enable X Getting Started Download flashrom and get started. Supported hardware | Downloads | Documentation | Live CD X Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support. FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker

PLCC32 chip News 2010/02/06: flashrom @ FOSDEM 2010 2010/02/02: flashrom 0.9.1 released 2009/11/15: Moved to flashrom.org 2009/09/02: flashrom 0.9.1 tagged 2009/05/04: flashrom 0.9.0 released