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-.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
-.\" This manpage is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
-.TH FLASHROM 1 "July 26, 2006"
+.TH FLASHROM 1 "September 19, 2006"
.SH NAME
flashrom \- the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -12,55 +10,56 @@ is the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility.
.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.
-
+.TP
.B "\-r, \-\-read"
Read flash and save contents into file.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-w, \-\-write"
Write file into flash (default when file is specified).
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-verify"
Verify flash against file.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-E, \-\-erase"
Erase flash device.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-V, \-\-verbose"
More verbose output.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
Probe only for specified flash chip.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
Exclude start position. (obsolete)
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr>
Exclude end postion. (obsolete)
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part>
Override mainboard settings.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-f, \-\-force"
Force write without checking image.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-l, \-\-layout" <layout.file>
Read ROM layout from file.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-i, \-\-image" <name>
Only flash image name from flash layout.
-.PP
+.TP
.B "\-h, \-\-help"
Show a help text and exit.
-.\".PP
+.\".TP
.\".B "\-\-version"
.\"Show version information and exit.
.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/.
.SH LICENCE
.B flashrom
-is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR romcc (1).
+.BR romcc (1),
+.BR abuild (1).
.SH COPYRIGHT
2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
.br
@@ -78,5 +77,5 @@ Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
.br
some others
.PP
-This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>,
-for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
+This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
+It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).