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author | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> | 2009-06-19 11:23:57 +0000 |
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committer | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> | 2009-06-19 11:23:57 +0000 |
commit | f4e88ae97a24a3d6515e447b1a2fb6ff1abc7a9e (patch) | |
tree | 2ac018e84e510e1c9fe7f1b5b2cc4943606cbfd0 /flashrom.8 | |
parent | eaf7bfe164deb09c75f41f4dfbc643c793acfd24 (diff) | |
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Kill obsolete exclude range feature
It is ignored by almost every chip and does not work for external flashers.
Plus, it gives the user a false sense of security in some corner cases.
Corresponding to flashrom svn r608.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'flashrom.8')
-rw-r--r-- | flashrom.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ flashrom \- detect, read, write, verify and erase flash chips .SH SYNOPSIS .B flashrom \fR[\fB\-VfLzhR\fR] [\fB\-E\fR|\fB\-r\fR file|\fB\-w\fR file|\fB\-v\fR file] - [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR addr] [\fB\-e\fR addr] [\fB\-m\fR [vendor:]part] + [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-m\fR [vendor:]part] [\fB\-l\fR file] [\fB\-i\fR image] [\fB\-p\fR programmer] [file] .SH DESCRIPTION .B flashrom @@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ More verbose output. .TP .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname> Probe only for specified flash ROM chip. -.TP -.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr> -Exclude start position (obsolete). .sp flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows: @@ -81,9 +78,6 @@ 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 "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr> -Exclude end postion (obsolete). -.TP .B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part> Override mainboard settings. .sp |