Flashrom

Flashrom
Developer(s) flashrom team
Stable release 0.9.8[1] / March 1, 2015 (2015-03-01)
Written in C
Operating system DragonFly BSD, DOS, FreeBSD, kFreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Windows (partial)
Available in English
Type Firmware utility
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.flashrom.org/

Flashrom is a universal flash programming utility used to detect, read, verify, erase, or write BIOS chips in dual in-line package (DIP), plastic leaded chip carrier (PLCC), small-outline integrated circuit (SOIC), thin small-outline package (TSOP), or ball grid array (BGA) packages. It supports parallel, Low Pin Count (LPC), FWH and Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI) flash interfaces. It can be used to flash firmware images such as BIOS or coreboot, or to backup an existing firmware.

Details

It is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

It has pciutils and zlib as dependencies, for some programmers also libftdi and libusb.

It is run from user space and usually requires superuser privileges (except when using supported USB devices as programmer).

Backup the firmware of the host running flashrom into a file:

# flashrom -p internal -r backup.bin

It supports over 450 flash chip families, 286 chipsets, 450 mainboards, 75 PCI devices, 13 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based devices which can be used as programmers. It supports cross-flashing and hot-flashing.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "flashrom/0.9.8". flashrom.org.
  2. ↑ "List of supported hardware". flashrom.org.

External links

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