Flashrom
| Developer(s) | flashrom team |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 0.9.4[1] / July 26, 2011 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, DragonflyBSD, DOS, Windows (partial) |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Firmware utility |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://www.flashrom.org/ |
Flashrom is a universal flash programming utility used to detect, read, verify, erase, or write BIOS chips in DIP, PLCC, SOIC, TSOP, or BGA packages. It supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces. It can be used to flash firmware images such as BIOS or coreboot, or to back up an existing firmware.
It is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
It has pciutils and zlib as dependencies, for some programmers also libftdi.
It is run from user space and usually requires superuser privileges (except when using supported USB devices as programmer).
Backup the current BIOS image into a file:
# flashrom -r backup.bin
It supports over 284 flash chip families, 173 chipsets, 306 mainboards, 50 PCI devices, 9 USB devices and various parallel/serial port and USB based devices which can be used as programmers.
It supports cross-flashing and hot-flashing.
