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author | Joerg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de> | 2010-03-13 14:47:48 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Karcher <flashrom@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> | 2010-03-13 14:47:48 +0000 |
commit | 353e4cab1e482cbe99572b6c002755242e2ee2bc (patch) | |
tree | dae6e1f339249c04cc512e9bb2bada7e16fde916 | |
parent | 63b77af54be68bc649b2a96049685ce9d2a05d1f (diff) | |
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Patch: Manpage: Move description of layout file into the right place
Move the description of the layout file out of the --chip option
into the --layout option.
Corresponding to flashrom svn r932.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>
Acked-by: Michael Karcher <flashrom@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
-rw-r--r-- | flashrom.8 | 48 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 24 deletions
@@ -62,6 +62,30 @@ More verbose output. .TP .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname> Probe only for specified flash ROM chip. +.TP +.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part> +Override mainboard settings. +.sp +flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no +coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can +specify \-m, e.g.: +.sp +.B " flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom" +.sp +See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom \-L' for +a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no +coreboot table is found. +.TP +.B "\-f, \-\-force" +Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant +to be used on this board. +.sp +Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those +boards where the coreboot code supports it. +.TP +.B "\-l, \-\-layout <file>" +Read ROM layout from +.BR <file> . .sp flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows: @@ -90,30 +114,6 @@ ROM layouts should replace the \-s and \-e option since they are more flexible and they should lead to a ROM update file format with the ROM layout and the ROM image in one file (cpio, zip or something?). .TP -.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part> -Override mainboard settings. -.sp -flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no -coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can -specify \-m, e.g.: -.sp -.B " flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom" -.sp -See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom \-L' for -a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no -coreboot table is found. -.TP -.B "\-f, \-\-force" -Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant -to be used on this board. -.sp -Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those -boards where the coreboot code supports it. -.TP -.B "\-l, \-\-layout <file>" -Read ROM layout from -.BR <file> . -.TP .B "\-i, \-\-image <name>" Only flash image .B <name> |