Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at --- flashrom.8 | 13 +++++++++---- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/flashrom.8 b/flashrom.8 index 5b11f6e..3b7ad40 100644 --- a/flashrom.8 +++ b/flashrom.8 @@ -44,7 +44,12 @@ Write .B <file> into flash ROM. This will first automatically .B erase -the chip, then write to it. +the chip, then write to it. The chip is also read several times: first an +in-memory backup is made for disaster recovery and to be able to skip regions +that are already equal to the image file. This copy is updated after each erase +block (in case of errors it is even re-read completely). After writing has +finished and if verification is enabled, the whole flash is read out and +compared with the input image. .TP .B "-n, --noverify" Skip the automatic verification of flash ROM contents after writing. Using this @@ -541,7 +546,7 @@ unusable unless you can desolder the flash chip and have a full flash chip backup. This is caused by the embedded controller (EC) present in many laptops, which interacts badly with any flash attempts. This is a hardware limitation and flashrom will attempt to detect it and abort immediately for safety reasons. -.SH LICENCE +.SH LICENSE .B flashrom is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. Some files are additionally available under the GPL (version 2, or any later version). @@ -623,6 +628,6 @@ some others, please see the flashrom svn changelog for details. .br All authors can be reached via email at flashrom@flashrom.org. .PP -This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de -and Carl-Daniel Hailfinger. +This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de, +Carl-Daniel Hailfinger and others. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).