Anastasia Klimchuk has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/83130?usp=email )
Change subject: doc: Add current numbers of supported devices to the intro page ......................................................................
doc: Add current numbers of supported devices to the intro page
Current numbers are taken from the output of `flashrom -L` command.
Intro page still has a room for improvement, but as a first step the numbers need to be updated. In future, maybe there is a way to update the numbers less manually.
Change-Id: I7531521955dcf01348ed2ba9c54316b32b9cd925 Signed-off-by: Anastasia Klimchuk aklm@flashrom.org --- M doc/intro.rst 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/flashrom refs/changes/30/83130/1
diff --git a/doc/intro.rst b/doc/intro.rst index b1fe99a..b9a2c97 100644 --- a/doc/intro.rst +++ b/doc/intro.rst @@ -2,20 +2,30 @@ chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices.
-* Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards, 79 PCI devices, - 17 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers. +* Supports more than 627 flash chips, 407 chipsets, 539 mainboards, 94 PCI devices, + 30 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers. + For more information, see the pages under :doc:`/supported_hw/index`. + * Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various chip packages (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40, TSOP48, BGA and more). + * No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed for some programmers). + * No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed. + * No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH. + * No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system, verify it, be happy. The new firmware will be present next time you boot. + * Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips are electrically and logically compatible (same protocol). Great for recovery. + * Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same time from the command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output and error codes. + * Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools. + * Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD (including Debian/kFreeBSD), NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, anything Solaris-like, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes as well as GNU Hurd. Partial Windows support is available (no internal programmer support at the moment, hence