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'''flashrom''' is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices. | '''flashrom''' is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices. | ||
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* Supports more than | * Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards, 79 PCI devices, 17 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers. | ||
* Supports [[Technology#Communication_bus_protocol|parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI]] flash interfaces and various chip packages ([[Technology#DIP32:_Dual_In-line_Package.2C_32_pins|DIP32]], [[Technology#PLCC32:_Plastic_Leaded_Chip_Carrier.2C_32_pins|PLCC32]], [[Technology#DIP8:_Dual_In-line_Package.2C_8_pins|DIP8]], [[Technology#SO8.2FSOIC8:_Small-Outline_Integrated_Circuit.2C_8_pins|SO8/SOIC8]], [[Technology#TSOP:_Thin_Small-Outline_Package.2C_32.2C_40.2C_or_48_pins|TSOP32, TSOP40, TSOP48]], [[Technology#BGA:_Ball_Grid_Array|BGA]] and more) | * Supports [[Technology#Communication_bus_protocol|parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI]] flash interfaces and various chip packages ([[Technology#DIP32:_Dual_In-line_Package.2C_32_pins|DIP32]], [[Technology#PLCC32:_Plastic_Leaded_Chip_Carrier.2C_32_pins|PLCC32]], [[Technology#DIP8:_Dual_In-line_Package.2C_8_pins|DIP8]], [[Technology#SO8.2FSOIC8:_Small-Outline_Integrated_Circuit.2C_8_pins|SO8/SOIC8]], [[Technology#TSOP:_Thin_Small-Outline_Package.2C_32.2C_40.2C_or_48_pins|TSOP32, TSOP40, TSOP48]], [[Technology#BGA:_Ball_Grid_Array|BGA]] and more) | ||
* No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed for some programmers). | * No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed for some programmers). | ||
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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. | * '''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. | * '''Speed'''. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools. | ||
* '''Portability'''. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, | * '''Portability'''. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD (including Debian/kFreeBSD), NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, anything Solaris-like, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes as well as GNU Hurd. Partial Windows support is available (no internal programmer support at the moment, hence no "BIOS flashing"). | ||
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'''<span style="font-variant:small-caps; font-size:120%">[[News]]</span>'''<hr /> | '''<span style="font-variant:small-caps; font-size:120%">[[News]]</span>'''<hr /> | ||
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* '''2016-03-13:''' [[Flashrom/0.9.9|flashrom 0.9.9 released]] | |||
* '''2015-03-01:''' [[Flashrom/0.9.8|flashrom 0.9.8 released]] | * '''2015-03-01:''' [[Flashrom/0.9.8|flashrom 0.9.8 released]] | ||
* '''2013-08-14:''' [[Flashrom/0.9.7|flashrom 0.9.7 released]] | * '''2013-08-14:''' [[Flashrom/0.9.7|flashrom 0.9.7 released]] | ||
* '''2013-04-08:''' flashrom participates in [[GSoC]] | * '''2013-04-08:''' flashrom participates in [[GSoC]] | ||
* '''2012-08-08:''' [[Flashrom/0.9.6|flashrom 0.9.6.1 released]] | * '''2012-08-08:''' [[Flashrom/0.9.6|flashrom 0.9.6.1 released]] | ||
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Revision as of 18:03, 13 March 2016
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flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices.
Emergency helpIMPORTANT: 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 freenode.net, webchat) or email. Please allow for a few hours until someone responds on IRC, we're all volunteers.
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