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flashrom

flashrom is a tool for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It’s often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can program flash chips.

It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32/40/48, and BGA chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI.

The tool can be used to flash BIOS/firmware images for example – be it proprietary BIOS images or coreboot (previously known as LinuxBIOS) images.

It can also be used to read the current existing BIOS/firmware from a flash chip.

Currently supported programmers include:

• internal (for in-system flashing in the mainboard)
• dummy (virtual programmer for testing flashrom)
• nic3com (for flash ROMs on 3COM network cards)
• nicrealtek (for flash ROMs on Realtek and SMC 1211 network cards)
• nicnatsemi (for flash ROMs on National Semiconductor DP838* network cards)
• nicintel (for parallel flash ROMs on Intel 10/100Mbit network cards)
• gfxnvidia (for flash ROMs on NVIDIA graphics cards)
• drkaiser (for flash ROMs on Dr. Kaiser PC-Waechter PCI cards)
• satasii (for flash ROMs on Silicon Image SATA/IDE controllers)
• satamv (for flash ROMs on Marvell SATA controllers)
• atahpt (for flash ROMs on Highpoint ATA/RAID controllers)
• atavia (for flash ROMs on VIA VT6421A SATA controllers)
• atapromise (for flash ROMs on Promise PDC2026x ATA/RAID controllers)
• it8212 (for flash ROMs on ITE IT8212F ATA/RAID controller)
• ft2232_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to an FT2232/FT4232H/FT232H family based USB SPI programmer), including the DLP Design DLP-USB1232H, FTDI FT2232H Mini-Module, FTDI FT4232H Mini-Module, openbiosprog-spi, Amontec JTAGkey/JTAGkey-tiny/JTAGkey-2, Dangerous Prototypes Bus Blaster, Olimex ARM-USB-TINY/-H, Olimex ARM-USB-OCD/-H, TIAO/DIYGADGET USB Multi-Protocol Adapter (TUMPA), TUMPA Lite, GOEPEL PicoTAP, Google Servo v1/v2, and FIC OpenMoko Neo1973 Debug board.
• serprog (for flash ROMs attached to a programmer speaking serprog), including AVR flasher by Urja Rannikko, AVR flasher by eightdot, Arduino Mega flasher by fritz, InSystemFlasher by Juhana Helovuo, and atmegaXXu2-flasher by Stefan Tauner.
• buspirate_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a Bus Pirate)
• dediprog (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a Dediprog SF100)
• rayer_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a RayeR parport based programmer)
• pony_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to a SI-Prog serial port bitbanging adapter)
• nicintel_spi (for SPI flash ROMs on Intel Gigabit network cards)
• ogp_spi (for SPI flash ROMs on Open Graphics Project graphics card)
• linux_spi (for SPI flash ROMs accessible via /dev/spidevX.Y on Linux)
• usbblaster_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to an Altera USB-Blaster)
• nicintel_eeprom (for SPI EEPROMs on Intel Gigabit network cards)
• mstarddc_spi (for SPI flash ROMs accessible through DDC in MSTAR-equipped displays)
• pickit2_spi (for SPI flash ROMs accessible via Microchip PICkit2)
• ch341a_spi (for SPI flash ROMs attached to WCH CH341A)

Installed size: 1.08 MB
How to install: sudo apt install flashrom

flashrom

Detect, read, write, verify and erase flash chips

root@kali:~# flashrom -h
flashrom unknown on Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
Usage: flashrom [-h|-R|-L|
	-p <programmername>[:<parameters>] [-c <chipname>]
		(--flash-name|--flash-size|
		 [-E|-x|(-r|-w|-v) <file>]
		 [(-l <layoutfile>|--ifd| --fmap|--fmap-file <file>) [-i <region>[:<file>]]...]
		 [-n] [-N] [-f])]
	[-V[V[V]]] [-o <logfile>]

 -h | --help                        print this help text
 -R | --version                     print version (release)
 -r | --read <file>                 read flash and save to <file>
 -w | --write (<file>|-)            write <file> or the content provided
                                    on the standard input to flash
 -v | --verify (<file>|-)           verify flash against <file>
                                    or the content provided on the standard input
 -E | --erase                       erase flash memory
 -V | --verbose                     more verbose output
 -c | --chip <chipname>             probe only for specified flash chip
 -f | --force                       force specific operations (see man page)
 -n | --noverify                    don't auto-verify
 -N | --noverify-all                verify included regions only (cf. -i)
 -x | --extract                     extract regions to files
 -l | --layout <layoutfile>         read ROM layout from <layoutfile>
      --wp-disable                  disable write protection
      --wp-enable                   enable write protection
      --wp-list                     list supported write protection ranges
      --wp-status                   show write protection status
      --wp-range=<start>,<len>      set write protection range (use --wp-range=0,0
                                    to unprotect the entire flash)
      --wp-region <region>          set write protection region
      --flash-name                  read out the detected flash name
      --flash-size                  read out the detected flash size
      --fmap                        read ROM layout from fmap embedded in ROM
      --fmap-file <fmapfile>        read ROM layout from fmap in <fmapfile>
      --ifd                         read layout from an Intel Firmware Descriptor
 -i | --include <region>[:<file>]   only read/write image <region> from layout
                                    (optionally with data from <file>)
      --image <region>[:<file>]     deprecated, please use --include
 -o | --output <logfile>            log output to <logfile>
      --flash-contents <ref-file>   assume flash contents to be <ref-file>
 -L | --list-supported              print supported devices
 -p | --programmer <name>[:<param>] specify the programmer device. One of
    internal, dummy, nic3com, nicrealtek, gfxnvidia, raiden_debug_spi, drkaiser,
    satasii, atavia, it8212, ft2232_spi, serprog, buspirate_spi, dediprog,
    developerbox, rayer_spi, pony_spi, nicintel, nicintel_spi, nicintel_eeprom,
    ogp_spi, satamv, linux_mtd, linux_spi, usbblaster_spi, pickit2_spi,
    ch341a_spi, digilent_spi, jlink_spi, stlinkv3_spi, dirtyjtag_spi.

You can specify one of -h, -R, -L, -E, -r, -w, -v or no operation.
If no operation is specified, flashrom will only probe for flash chips.

libflashrom-dev

flashrom is a tool for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It’s often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can program flash chips.

It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32/40/48, and BGA chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI.

The tool can be used to flash BIOS/firmware images for example – be it proprietary BIOS images or coreboot (previously known as LinuxBIOS) images.

It can also be used to read the current existing BIOS/firmware from a flash chip.

This package provides flashrom header development files.

Installed size: 44 KB
How to install: sudo apt install libflashrom-dev

libflashrom1

flashrom is a tool for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It’s often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can program flash chips.

It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32/40/48, and BGA chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI.

The tool can be used to flash BIOS/firmware images for example – be it proprietary BIOS images or coreboot (previously known as LinuxBIOS) images.

It can also be used to read the current existing BIOS/firmware from a flash chip.

This package provides flashrom library development files.

Installed size: 1.03 MB
How to install: sudo apt install libflashrom1