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authorUwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>2006-12-20 14:59:56 +0000
committerUwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>2006-12-20 14:59:56 +0000
commitc2c86465849189b267de215bad3d9109f5740e15 (patch)
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parent7adaa11dcf6d4dbd62af182901bac487491767be (diff)
downloadcoreboot-c2c86465849189b267de215bad3d9109f5740e15.tar.xz
Improve flashrom description in the manpage a bit (trivial).
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2531 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
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-.TH FLASHROM 1 "November 22, 2006"
+.TH FLASHROM 1 "December 20, 2006"
.SH NAME
-flashrom \- the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility
+flashrom \- a universal 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]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B flashrom
-is the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility.
+is a universal flash programming utility for flash chips
+(e.g. in DIP or PLCC packaging). It can be used to flash BIOS images,
+for example.
.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.