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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <herd>no-herd</herd> |
| <maintainer> |
| <email>leio@gentoo.org</email> |
| </maintainer> |
| <maintainer> |
| <email>peter@stuge.se</email> |
| <description>Please CC on all bugs</description> |
| </maintainer> |
| <use> |
| <flag name="ftdi">Enable flashing through FTDI/SPI USB interface</flag> |
| <flag name="serprog">Enable Serial Flasher support</flag> |
| </use> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images. |
| |
| * Supports more than 195 flash chips, 75 chipsets, 130 mainboards, and 17 devices (PCI or USB) which can be used as external 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 Linux, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
