# The sysutils/flashrom port

## flashrom-1.0p0 – flash ROM programmer for BIOS etc

## Description

    flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying
    and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS, EFI, coreboot,
    firmware and optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage
    controller cards, and various programmer devices.

    * Supports more than 225 flash chips, 128 chipsets, 186 mainboards, 19 PCI
    devices, 3 USB devices and all external programmers using the serprog protocol.
    * 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 and /dev/mem 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.

WWW: https://www.flashrom.org/

Only for arches
  amd64 i386
Categories:
  sysutils

## Library dependencies

- devel/libftdi
- devel/libusb-compat

## Build dependencies

- archivers/bzip2
- devel/gmake
- sysutils/pciutils:patch

## Run dependencies

- sysutils/dmidecode