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| author | Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> | 2006-12-20 14:59:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> | 2006-12-20 14:59:56 +0000 |
| commit | 424b7cf57fb6b54498dfee9632d3e060eec63fd6 (patch) | |
| tree | a7759042889ad2fc4e5d75e6c3cd3737a9975784 | |
| parent | 83f0db268169c236ab7e78d2769cdd0f22fa2dd9 (diff) | |
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Improve flashrom description in the manpage a bit
Corresponding to flashrom svn r84 and coreboot v2 svn r2531.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | flashrom.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ -.TH FLASHROM 1 "November 22, 2006" +.TH FLASHROM 1 "December 20, 2006" .SH NAME -flashrom \- the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility +flashrom \- a universal flash programming utility .SH SYNOPSIS .B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVfh\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end] [\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [\fB-l\fR file.layout] [\fB-i\fR image_name] [file] .SH DESCRIPTION .B flashrom -is the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility. +is a universal flash programming utility for flash chips +(e.g. in DIP or PLCC packaging). It can be used to flash BIOS images, +for example. .SH OPTIONS If no file is specified, then all that happens is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable. |
