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authorStefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>2013-01-01 00:06:51 +0000
committerStefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>2013-01-01 00:06:51 +0000
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Add a bunch of new/tested stuff and various small changes 16
Tested Mainboards: OK: - Acer V75-M (used in IBM Aptiva 2170-G http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010300.html - ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA with W39V040FB http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1446 - ASRock 775Dual-VSTA http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010294.html - ASRock E350M1/USB3 http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1465 - ASUS P5B-VM http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010351.html - ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010210.html - Elitegroup A928 (including a laptop whitelist board enable) http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010119.html - EVGA 122-CK-NF68 Reported by Stephanie Daugherty on IRC http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1431 - GIGABYTE GA-A75M-UD2H Reported by Soul_keeper on IRC http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1490 - Intel D945GCNL Add board enable to override laptop detection too. http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010276.html - MSI G33M (MS-7357) http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-October/010056.html - Shuttle FB61 http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010105.html - Tyan S4882 (Thunder K8QS Pro) Reported on IRC NOT OK: Alienware Aurora-R2 http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010225.html Biostar H61MU3 http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010144.html Dell OptiPlex 7010 http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1481 Intel DH67CL http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010112.html Supermicro X9DRT-HF+ http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010155.html Supermicro X9DRW http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010150.html Tested flash chips: - Atmel AT25FS010 to PREW (+PREW) http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1484 - Eon EN25F64 to PREW (+EW) http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010210.html - Spansion S25FL032A/P to PREW (+EW) http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1510 - ST M29F002T/NT to PREW (+PREW) http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-December/010300.html - Winbond W25X10 to PREW (+PREW) http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1486 Tested chipsets: - NVIDIA MCP78S http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010176.html - SiS 650 http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-November/010119.html Miscellaneous: - Typo in GA-X58A-UDR3 (correct is GA-X58A-UD3R). - Force 2-digit hex numbers in prints were it makes sense. - Share code between enable_flash_sis530() and enable_flash_sis540(). - Some SST 25 series chips support both WRSR enable commands... - S25FL032A and S25FL064A share the IDs with their P versions, so rename them. - Fix a few memleaks in serprog. - Dediprog uses UINT_MAX so include limits.h (fixes the Windows build of dediprog) - Add (another) hint regarding the mandatory -p parameter to the manpage to make Debian bug #690478 happy. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690478 - Fix whitespace issues. - On shutdown, reset count of registered programmers (by Nico Huber) - Fix atahpt.c shutdown. The order of pcidev_init, register_shutdown and rpci_write_* is important! Thanks to Roy for reporting the problem and testing the fix. Corresponding to flashrom svn r1640. Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at> Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'flashrom.8')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/flashrom.8 b/flashrom.8
index bb481c7..102bd62 100644
--- a/flashrom.8
+++ b/flashrom.8
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ recommended that if you try flashrom the first time on a system, you run it
in probe-only mode and check the output. Also you are advised to make a
backup of your current ROM contents with
.B \-r
-before you try to write a new image.
+before you try to write a new image. All operations involving any chip access (probe/read/write/...) require the
+.B -p/--programmer
+option to be used (please see below).
.TP
.B "\-r, \-\-read <file>"
Read flash ROM contents and save them into the given
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ If you only want to update the image named
.sp
.B " flashrom \-p prog \-\-layout rom.layout \-\-image normal \-w some.rom"
.sp
-To update only the images named
+To update only the images named
.BR "normal " "and " "fallback" ", run:"
.sp
.B " flashrom \-p prog \-l rom.layout \-i normal -i fallback \-w some.rom"
@@ -694,11 +696,11 @@ The schematic of the Xilinx DLC 5 was published at
.BR "pony_spi " programmer
The serial port (like /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyUSB0 on Linux or COM3 on windows) is
specified using the mandatory
-.B dev
+.B dev
parameter. The adapter type is selectable between SI-Prog (used for
SPI devices with PonyProg 2000) or a custom made serial bitbanging programmer
named "serbang". The optional
-.B type
+.B type
parameter accepts the values "si_prog" (default) or "serbang".
.sp
Information about the SI-Prog adapter can be found at
@@ -724,7 +726,7 @@ is either
.B cprom
or
.B s3
-for the configuration ROM and
+for the configuration ROM and
.B bprom
or
.B bios
@@ -733,7 +735,7 @@ is installed in your system, you have to specify the PCI address of the card
you want to use with the
.B pci=
parameter as explained in the
-.B nic3com et al.\&
+.B nic3com et al.\&
section above.
.sp
More information about the hardware is available at
OpenPOWER on IntegriCloud