I find this is true of a lot of utilities. Why is there not a simple step by step How to.. ? I have looked over the documentation and now I know how to make a donation but to hell if anything even gives me a hint as to how I flash my BIOS.
The one link that I can find that says "How can I use flashrom?" looks like:
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.TH FLASHROM 8 "Jun 06, 2010" | |
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.SH NAME | |
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flashrom \- detect, read, write, verify and erase flash chips | |
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.SH SYNOPSIS | |
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.B flashrom \fR[\fB\-n\fR] [\fB\-V\fR] [\fB\-f\fR] [\fB\-h\fR|\fB\-R\fR|\ | |
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\fB\-L\fR|\fB\-z\fR|\fB\-E\fR|\fB\-r\fR <file>|\fB\-w\fR <file>|\ | |
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\fB\-v\fR <file>] | |
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[\fB\-c\fR <chipname>] [\fB\-m\fR [<vendor>:]<board>] \ | |
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[\fB\-l\fR <file>] | |
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[\fB\-i\fR <image>] [\fB\-p\fR <programmername>[:<parameters>]] |
etc.
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Does that mean anything to anybody?
Please, I need to flash my ASUS p5b Deluxe motherboard. What do I do?
Download the BIOS version I want to use and burn it to a disc?
Burn flashrom onto the same disc?
I'm sure people put a lot of effort into flashrom, but it is utterly pointless if nobody can use it or you need a background in computer science, because that makes it useful to such a small group that whats the point?