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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>idl0r@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Christian Ruppert</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>peter@stuge.se</email> |
| <description>Please CC on all bugs</description> |
| </maintainer> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Proxy Maintainers</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <use> |
| <flag name="atahpt">Highpoint (HPT) ATA/RAID controller support</flag> |
| <flag name="atapromise">Support for Promise PDC2026x (FastTrak/Ultra)</flag> |
| <flag name="atavia">Support for VIA VT6421A SATA controllers</flag> |
| <flag name="bitbang_spi">Bitbanging SPI infrastructure</flag> |
| <flag name="buspirate_spi">Enable Bus Pirate SPI programmer</flag> |
| <flag name="dediprog">Dediprog SF100 support</flag> |
| <flag name="drkaiser">Enable Dr. Kaiser programmer</flag> |
| <flag name="dummy">Enable dummy tracing</flag> |
| <flag name="ft2232_spi">Enable ftdi programmer, flashing through FTDI/SPI USB interface</flag> |
| <flag name="gfxnvidia">Enable NVIDIA programmer</flag> |
| <flag name="internal">Enable internal/onboard support</flag> |
| <flag name="internal_dmi">Enable internal DMI decoding rather than use <pkg>sys-apps/dmidecode</pkg></flag> |
| <flag name="it8212">Support for ITE IT8212F ATA/RAID controllers</flag> |
| <flag name="linux_spi">Enable support for Linux userspace spidev interface</flag> |
| <flag name="mstarddc_spi">Support for SPI flash ROMs accessible through DDC in MSTAR-equipped displays</flag> |
| <flag name="nic3com">Enable 3Com NIC programmer</flag> |
| <flag name="nicintel">Support for Intel NICs</flag> |
| <flag name="nicintel_eeprom">Support for EEPROMs on Intel Gigabit network cards</flag> |
| <flag name="nicintel_spi">Support for SPI on Intel NICs</flag> |
| <flag name="nicnatsemi">Support for National Semiconductor NICs</flag> |
| <flag name="nicrealtek">Support for Realtek NICs</flag> |
| <flag name="ogp_spi">Enable support for OGP (Open Graphics Project) SPI flashing</flag> |
| <flag name="pickit2_spi">SUpport for SPI flash ROMs accessible via Microchip PICkit2</flag> |
| <flag name="pony_spi">Enable support for SI-Prog like hardware by Lancos</flag> |
| <flag name="rayer_spi">RayeR SPIPGM hardware support</flag> |
| <flag name="satasii">Enable programmer for SiI SATA controllers</flag> |
| <flag name="satamv">Enable programmer for Marvell SATA controllers</flag> |
| <flag name="serprog">Enable Serial Flasher programmer</flag> |
| <flag name="tools">Install additional tools</flag> |
| <flag name="usbblaster">Enable support for Altera USB-Blaster dongles</flag> |
| <flag name="usbblaster_spi">Enable support for Altera USB-Blaster dongles</flag> |
| <flag name="wiki">Enable wiki informations, like supported devices etc.</flag> |
| </use> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| 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 other programmer devices. |
| |
| Supports more than 380 flash chips, 260 chipsets, 450 mainboards, 50 PCI devices, 12 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, BGA and more) |
| No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed for some programmers). |
| 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 (no internal programmer support at the moment, hence no "BIOS flashing"). |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |