From 5d53575d3b92e4a459532d7f2d35e9d0d83a2800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: uwe Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:14:21 +0000 Subject: Documentation improvements and small code/whitespace fixes (trivial). Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann Acked-by: Uwe Hermann git-svn-id: https://code.coreboot.org/svn/flashrom/trunk@535 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1 --- README | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index d72f225..9db8d4b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ flashrom README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flashrom is a utility for reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash ROM -chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/coreboot/firmware images. +chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware 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, and TSOP40 chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, @@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ Supported Flash Chips / Chipsets / Mainboards --------------------------------------------- Please check the output of 'flashrom -L' for the list of supported -flash chips, chipsets/southbridges, and mainboards. +flash chips, chipsets/southbridges, mainboards, and flash programmers. See also http://coreboot.org/Flashrom for more details. -- cgit v1.2.1