Package: flashprog (1.5-2~exp1)

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Experimental package

Warning: This package is from the experimental distribution. That means it is likely unstable or buggy, and it may even cause data loss. Please be sure to consult the changelog and other possible documentation before using it.

Identify, read, write, erase, and verify BIOS/ROM/flash chips

flashprog 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 flashprog)
  * 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)

Flashprog is a fork of flashrom and a continuation of flashrom-stable. flashprog, like flashrom-stable before, provides far more regular releases and newer chipset support compared to flashrom, so up-to-date chipset support can hopefully make it into stable distributions in time.

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• dep: libgpiod2t64 (>= 1.1) [x32]

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• dep: libgpiod3 (>= 2.1) [not x32]

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• dep: libjaylink0 (>= 0.4.0)

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• dep: libpci3 (>= 1:3.13.0)

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Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
alpha (unofficial port)	166.5 kB	956.0 kB	[list of files]
amd64	255.8 kB	1,371.0 kB	[list of files]
arm64	186.6 kB	1,147.0 kB	[list of files]
armhf	171.5 kB	826.0 kB	[list of files]
hppa (unofficial port)	154.1 kB	805.0 kB	[list of files]
i386	257.0 kB	1,166.0 kB	[list of files]
loong64	183.9 kB	1,146.0 kB	[list of files]
m68k (unofficial port)	145.8 kB	745.0 kB	[list of files]
ppc64 (unofficial port)	196.4 kB	1,274.0 kB	[list of files]
ppc64el	209.6 kB	1,275.0 kB	[list of files]
riscv64	183.0 kB	1,047.0 kB	[list of files]
s390x	171.4 kB	1,070.0 kB	[list of files]
sh4 (unofficial port)	178.7 kB	826.0 kB	[list of files]
sparc64 (unofficial port)	158.0 kB	1,088.0 kB	[list of files]
x32 (unofficial port)	251.3 kB	1,118.0 kB	[list of files]