no-herd leio@gentoo.org idl0r@gentoo.org Christian Ruppert peter@stuge.se Please CC on all bugs Highpoint (HPT) ATA/RAID controller support Bitbanging SPI infrastructure Enable Bus Pirate SPI programmer Dediprog SF100 support Enable Dr. Kaiser programmer Enable dummy tracing Enable ftdi programmer, flashing through FTDI/SPI USB interface Enable NVIDIA programmer Enable internal/onboard support Enable 3Com NIC programmer Support for Intel NICs Support for SPI on Intel NICs Support for National Semiconductor NICs Support for Realtek NICs Enable support for OGP (Open Graphics Project) SPI flashing RayeR SPIPGM hardware support Enable programmer for SiI SATA controllers Enable programmer for Marvell SATA controllers Enable Serial Flasher programmer Enable wiki informations, like supported devices etc. flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various programmer devices. * Supports more than 261 flash chips, 152 chipsets, 259 mainboards, 43 PCI devices, 5 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers. * Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various chip packages (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40, TSOP48, and more) * No physical access needed, root access is sufficient. * No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed. * No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH. * No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system, verify it, be happy. The new firmware will be present next time you boot. * Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips are electrically and logically compatible (same protocol). Great for recovery. * Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same time from the command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output and error codes. * Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools. * Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes. Partial Windows support is available (full support as patch).