Flashrom (utility)

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Flashrom
Developer(s)flashrom team
Stable release
1.3.0[1] / 8 February 2023; 14 months ago (8 February 2023)
Repository
Written in
Windows (partial)
Available inEnglish
TypeFirmware utility
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.flashrom.org Edit this on Wikidata

Flashrom is a

Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). It can be used to flash firmware images such as BIOS or coreboot
, or to backup existing firmware.

Details

It is

user space and usually requires superuser
privileges (except when using supported USB devices as programmer).

The flashrom project is lead and maintained by Anastasia Klimchuk.

Supported hardware

SOIC-8
chips for flashing

Support for programmers include the Bus Pirate[2] and the Raspberry Pi.[3]

It supports over 480 flash chip families, 291 chipsets, 524 mainboards, 71 PCI devices, 19 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based devices which can be used as programmers. It supports cross-flashing and hot-flashing.[4]

Supported packaging types include

thin small-outline package (TSOP), or ball grid array
(BGA) packages.

See also

References

  1. ^ Anastasia Klimchuk (9 February 2023). "flashrom release v1.3.0 is out". Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  2. ISBN 978-1-7185-0091-4
    .
  3. ^ Rankin, Kyle (March 6, 2017). "Flash ROMs with a Raspberry Pi". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  4. ^ "List of supported hardware". flashrom.org.

External links

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