From 645c6df21a9570da7f8ac07fe740a0df3a1d4d1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Mayer Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:47:48 +0000 Subject: Patch: Manpage: Move description of layout file into the right place Move the description of the layout file out of the --chip option into the --layout option. Corresponding to flashrom svn r932. Signed-off-by: Joerg Mayer Acked-by: Michael Karcher --- flashrom.8 | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'flashrom.8') diff --git a/flashrom.8 b/flashrom.8 index 25f4a1ed..d3cf4d86 100644 --- a/flashrom.8 +++ b/flashrom.8 @@ -62,6 +62,30 @@ More verbose output. .TP .B "\-c, \-\-chip" Probe only for specified flash ROM chip. +.TP +.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part> +Override mainboard settings. +.sp +flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no +coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can +specify \-m, e.g.: +.sp +.B " flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom" +.sp +See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom \-L' for +a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no +coreboot table is found. +.TP +.B "\-f, \-\-force" +Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant +to be used on this board. +.sp +Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those +boards where the coreboot code supports it. +.TP +.B "\-l, \-\-layout " +Read ROM layout from +.BR . .sp flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows: @@ -90,30 +114,6 @@ ROM layouts should replace the \-s and \-e option since they are more flexible and they should lead to a ROM update file format with the ROM layout and the ROM image in one file (cpio, zip or something?). .TP -.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part> -Override mainboard settings. -.sp -flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no -coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can -specify \-m, e.g.: -.sp -.B " flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom" -.sp -See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom \-L' for -a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no -coreboot table is found. -.TP -.B "\-f, \-\-force" -Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant -to be used on this board. -.sp -Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those -boards where the coreboot code supports it. -.TP -.B "\-l, \-\-layout " -Read ROM layout from -.BR . -.TP .B "\-i, \-\-image " Only flash image .B -- cgit v1.2.3