Minor documentation improvements/fixes in the README and manpage (trivial).

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>



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Flashrom README
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This is the universal (coreboot) flash utility.
Flashrom is a universal flash programming utility for DIP, PLCC, or SPI
flash ROM chips. It can be used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images.
(see http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot)
Build Requirements
------------------
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ROM Layout Support
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Flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows to flash certain parts of
Flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of
the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows:
00000000:00008fff gfxrom
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Disk on Chip support
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Disk on Chip support is currently disabled since it is considered unstable.
Disk on Chip support is currently disabled since it is considered unstable.
Change CFLAGS in the Makefile to enable it: Remove -DDISABLE_DOC from CFLAGS.

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.TH FLASHROM 8 "October 18, 2007"
.TH FLASHROM 8 "January 18, 2008"
.SH NAME
flashrom \- a universal flash programming utility
flashrom \- a universal BIOS/ROM/flash programming utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B flashrom \fR[\fB\-rwvEVfh\fR] [\fB\-c\fR chipname] [\fB\-s\fR exclude_start] [\fB\-e\fR exclude_end]
[\fB-m\fR vendor:part] [\fB-l\fR file.layout] [\fB-i\fR image_name] [file]
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.B flashrom
is a universal flash programming utility for DIP, PLCC, or SPI flash ROM
chips. It can be used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images, for example.
(see
.B http://coreboot.org
for details on coreboot)
.SH OPTIONS
If no file is specified, then all that happens
is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
.TP
.B "\-r, \-\-read"
Read flash ROM contents an save them into the given file.
Read flash ROM contents and save them into the given file.
.TP
.B "\-w, \-\-write"
Write file into flash (default when file is specified).
Write file into flash ROM (default when file is specified).
.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-verify"
Verify the flash ROM contents against the given file.
.TP
.B "\-E, \-\-erase"
Erase the flash device.
Erase the flash ROM device.
.TP
.B "\-V, \-\-verbose"
More verbose output.
.TP
.B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
Probe only for specified flash chip.
Probe only for specified flash ROM chip.
.TP
.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
Exclude start position. (obsolete)
Exclude start position (obsolete).
.TP
.B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr>
Exclude end postion. (obsolete)
Exclude end postion (obsolete).
.TP
.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part>
Override mainboard settings. This option is needed for some mainboards,
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.\".B "\-\-version"
.\"Show version information and exit.
.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs at http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/,
or on the coreboot mailing list (http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist).
Please report any bugs at
.BR http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/newticket ","
or on the coreboot mailing list
.RB "(" http://coreboot.org/Mailinglist ")."
.SH LICENCE
.B flashrom
is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
.\" .SH SEE ALSO
.SH COPYRIGHT
2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
.br
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some others
.PP
This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).