Usage
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Usage scenarios
Boot firmware(BIOS/coreboot)
Option roms
Flashrom can be used to flash option roms such as ipxe or sgabios, they can respectively be flashed on network card and graphic card, but it's not mandatory: you can use any card as a carrier as long as the card is supported by flashrom and that the BIOS runs its option rom.
Howto flash sgabios on an Nvidia video card
Here's an example on how to flash sgabios on an Nvidia video card:
- download flashrom
- apply that patch:
diff --git a/gfxnvidia.c b/gfxnvidia.c
index d0a9feb..35e4687 100644
--- a/gfxnvidia.c
+++ b/gfxnvidia.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ int gfxnvidia_init(void)
rpci_write_long(dev, 0x50, reg32);
/* Write/erase doesn't work. */
- programmer_may_write = 0;
+ //programmer_may_write = 0;
register_par_programmer(&par_programmer_gfxnvidia, BUS_PARALLEL);
return 0;
- compile it
- download and build sgabios
- Identify your flash chip size by running:
flashrom -pgfxnvidia
- pad sgabios to the size of your flashchip:
dd if=/dev/zero of=sgabios.rom bs=1 count=65536 dd if=10b79200.rom of=sgabios.rom conv=notrunc
- flash it(and retry in case of failure, it has a high failure rate)