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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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>
<longdescription lang="en">
flashrom is a utility for reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash ROM chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images.
Highlights of flashrom include:
* Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces.
* Supports more than 150 flash chip families and half a dozen variants of each family.
* Flash chip package agnostic. DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40 and more have all been verified to work.
* Supports more than 75 different chipsets, some with multiple flash controllers.
* Features special mainboard enabling code for dozens of nonstandard mainboards.
* 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 ROM 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 much faster than most vendor flash tools.
* Supports Linux, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes.
</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>
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